In article <[email protected]>, Harry Waddell <[email protected]> wrote: >On Wed, 3 Jun 2015 18:27:44 +0000 (UTC) >[email protected] (Christos Zoulas) wrote: > >> In article <[email protected]>, >> Harry Waddell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 16:13:07 +0100 (BST) >> >Stephen Borrill <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> Anyone working on adding support for SYMBIOS MEGARAID 3108 >> >> (0x1000/0x005d) >> >> or 3008 (0x1000/0x005f)? These are supported in OpenBSD by the mfii >> >> driver >> >> which also supports the MEGARAID 2208 (0x1000/0x005b). In NetBSD, the >> >> mfi(4) driver was extended to support the 2208 (Thunderbolt) rather than >> >> adding a new driver. The 3008/3108 will require another MFI_IOP type >> >> (OpenBSD call it 25). >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Stephen >> >> >> > >> >I have a system with this on the motherboard, but I'm dropping an lsi >> >9261-i8 in >> >because the newer cards are not supported. My vendor has told me that >> >the 9261 is near EOL, >> >so it would be really helpful if someone could add support for the newer >> >LSI >> >cards. Unfortunately, I don't have much experience in this area. >> >> Shouldn't be too hard to do... As long someone has a card to test... >> >> christos >> > >I just double checked my invoice and the MB has an embedded 3108 >hooked up to 7 sata and 1 ssd drive ( for cachecade ). > >I don't need to put this into production immediately, so I >can test something during the next few days. >After that, it will be hard to test with drives hooked up as >the cables are not the same for it and the 9261. Just seeing if the >hw get recognized without drives attached would be easy enough. > >I should be getting two more identical systems in the next few months, >so I could test it with one of those too. The plan is to put >netbsd-7 on these, but I could boot a current kernel if needed.
If Frank can post his patches and we can take a look at the OpenBSD driver for the I/O performance fix. christos
