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Date:      Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:35:19 +0200
From:      Ruben van Staveren <ruben@verweg.com>
To:        Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Management interface for cards powered by the "mfi" driver?
Message-ID:  <371FB814-3292-4388-9A0C-34CCF7AEEE39@verweg.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080620043712.GA7635@FS.denninger.net>
References:  <20080618153127.GA2662@FS.denninger.net> <200806182042.m5IKgNa4022361@ambrisko.com> <20080620043712.GA7635@FS.denninger.net>

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On 20 Jun 2008, at 6:37, Karl Denninger wrote:
>>
>> The linux version sysctl is?  Also I think you need to make sure
>> mfi_linux.ko is loaded before linuxsys.ko mounts so you get the  
>> emulation
>> hooks.  Verify that via:
>> 	head /compat/linux/sys/class/scsi_host/*/proc_name
>> results in one saying:
>> 	megaraid_sas
>> or it won't think it is there.
>
> BINGO!  That did it.
>
>> The count is good to see if your file system & linux version sysctl
>> stuff is in the right state.  Once it detects it, then the ioctl  
>> should
>> work.  6-stable, 7-stable and -current all have the latest stuff to
>> support all of the ioctl stuff as Linux does for MegaCli.  MegaCli
>> does various things to try to find the card in Linux that is really
>> strange IMHO.  For FreeBSD it doesn't have to be that complicated.
>> They unfortunately, have not released a FreeBSD MegaCli which they
>> could ...
>
> It looks like I need to explicitly set those to load in the
> /boot/loader.conf instead of letting them autoload on demand...

I'll make some changes in the port, for stressing out the load order  
and to let the wrapper work when compat.linux.osrelease is higher than  
2.6.12

> -- Karl Denninger
> karl@denninger.net


Regards,
	Ruben

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