Re: LSI 9240-8i (IBM M1015) MegaRaid support

Thank you Doug.

I have another machine on the way, that i can use for testing.
In the meantime, i got it to work with a reflashed controller, using
the mps driver.

I posted a "howto" to the forums

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=27268

Best regards,
Roberto

> Roberto de Iriarte writes:
> | Hi,
> |
> | Is there any expectancy of getting this piece of hardware (or it's IBM
> | silbing, the M1015) working in MegaRaid mode, without having to reflash
> | the card to IT mode.
> |
> | The reason of this request is that the UEFI Bios on the IBM XSeries
> | 3550M3 refuses to properly initialize the controller if reflashed with
> | the IT mode firmware, thus making it unusable.
> |
> | A search on LSI's website for a driver that supports 8-Stable or 9 did
> | not produce any results
>
> I have driver changes from LSI to support the 9240 and newer ThunderBolt
> based cards.  I have the cards working but need to do a bunch more work
> to get this into shape to commit to FreeBSD.  I also need to look at
> how they are dealing with their JBOD configuration and attachment.
>
> I have cards to test this stuff out but my time is limited to work on it.
> One thing I should start working on is merging in the LSI changes into
> the FreeBSD version since the LSI code drop has removed a bunch of
> features that the FreeBSD version has.  Then I can have a smaller change.
> There are some architectural changes that I need to figure out.  They
> started to use 64 bit addressing.  Then there are style issues.
>
> Probably the best thing for me to do is add the new HW support to
> FreeBSD as a small diff then work on improving that and maybe others
> can also help with that.
>
> Doug A.
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