Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:53:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Richard Puga <puga@mauibuilt.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ips.ko load sequence Message-ID: <20030905125156.M72174@root.org> In-Reply-To: <3F58C8BB.D83E703@mauibuilt.com> References: <3F58C8BB.D83E703@mauibuilt.com>
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On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Richard Puga wrote: > I have the ips driver working with the IBM ServerRaid 5i. However it > only works if I boot off an IDE drive and load the driver after the > kernel is loaded. > > What I believe the problem to be is the fact that this "Raid" card is > just an add in card to a modified PCI slot that makes the on board LSI > dual channel controller into a RAID, and something in the kernel is > loading (not the LSI driver its been taken out) which makes these 2 > separate devices act as one through the PCI bus and is the reason the > ips.ko driver can only be loaded after booting. > > I believe a quick and dirty fix for this may be to load the ips.ko > module after the kernel has booted and before init mounts /. > > Is there a way to do this via something in /boot/loader (the standard > way in loader.conf loads it too soon) or perhaps a way to compile isp > into the kernel in a way that it would be probed at a later time or in a > different sequence or to make the kernel load the module right before > ffs_mountroofs? Perhaps a better way is to split the driver probe and attach routines and run the latter at lowest startup priority so it runs right before the disk probe. -Nate
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