On 7/27/18 8:51 , Jan Paul wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 27 Jul 2018, at 17:29, Robert Mustacchi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On 7/27/18 7:38 , Jan Paul wrote:
>>> Given the amazing progress Robert has made on making the new Kaby lake 
>>> machines work with SmartOS (huge kudos!),
>>> I'd like to raise a question related to us "small scale" hobbyists HW needs.
>>>
>>> Given the fact the NUCs seem to be still the most efficient small lab box 
>>> for home SmartOS playing and those are mostly NVME only machines.
>>> I found that getting NVME 1.2 M2 SSDs is almost impossible as most of the 
>>> NVMEs I've been able to get are 1.3 ones.
>>>
>>> Is there any plan on up-reving the Illumos nvme driver with the new version 
>>> support?
>>
>> Yes, that's on the TODO list.
> Perfect!
>>
>>> I so far workaround it via setting the strict-version=0 in nvme.conf and 
>>> the system so far works, but I just wanted to bring this question up so
>>> we can get some feedback on it.
>>
>> That's good to know. It should usually work and we maybe should relax
>> that strict version check to only be based on major versions. Which NVMe
>> 1.3 parts are you using?
>>
> Samsung 970EVO 250G
> 
> it seems to be pretty happy with the workaround (so far about 10 hours of 
> runtime on SmartOS).

FYI, a fix for this went back today:
https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent/commit/1eb19b4a7770efe8736592808ccffef5e3c16bb8.

Robert


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