Contributed by marco on from the ACPI-AML-hell dept.
Meanwhile I am working on mpt(4) to add IM support. First thing I did is fixing the debug output. It's too loud and therefore mostly useless; not even mentioning how huge it is! The bad part is that is always compiled in adding too much fluff to the boot floppy. These are the results of that endeavor:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 16632 Feb 2 21:04 mpt.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 469 Feb 2 21:04 mpt_debug.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 14356 Feb 2 21:04 mpt_openbsd.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3732 Feb 2 21:04 mpt_pci.o 35189 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 24916 Feb 2 21:44 mpt.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 12920 Feb 2 21:44 mpt_debug.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 15900 Feb 2 21:44 mpt_openbsd.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3848 Feb 2 21:44 mpt_pci.o 57584 savings: 22395Not bad for a days work. This is being tested by some others right now to make sure I am not on crack. If this makes it in I'll be able to start adding IM code (now that I can debug it!). After IM I want to add SAS support now that I have the hardware to do so. LSI was so friendly to donate some gear to support this effort. This is going to be done post 3.9 though.
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Continue here: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11372
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By Marco Peereboom (67.64.89.177) marco@peereboom.us on http://www.peereboom.us
By rednerd (129.55.200.20) jon@tangentrix.com on
>LSI was so friendly to donate some gear to support this effort. This is >going to be done post 3.9 though.
If anyone at LSI is reading this, I used up my last Adaptec SCSI card at work yesterday. I will be reordering LSI cards instead of Adaptec. Thanks for the support. :)
Cheers!
By Anonymous Coward (24.217.190.176) on
>It looks as though the 3ware cards aren't well-supported on OpenBSD, and
>from the looks of things, the OpenBSD devs are actually a bit hostile
>toward them. Do you offer an LSI card on the OpenBSD supported list,
>like the MegaRAID SATA 150-4?
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They responded with a new quote with the LSI card in under 10 minutes. It's a popular vendor who specifically states that they provide OpenBSD-compatible machines, which is why I thought it odd that they initially quoted me the 3ware card. It was a $3000 machine, which isn't much in the grand scheme of things, but I wouldn't have purchased it without working with OpenBSD.
By Anonymous Coward (24.217.190.176) on
It certainly is: "LSI/Symbios 523 SATA, MegaRAID 150-4, MegaRAID 150-6, MegaRAID 300-8x"
And the ami(4) man page lists it as supported: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ami&sektion=4&arch=i386&apropos=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current
"LSI/AMI/Symbios MegaRAID, MegaRAID 320, MegaRAID 320-1, MegaRAID 320-2E, MegaRAID i4, 523 SATA, MegaRAID 150-4, MegaRAID 150-6, MegaRAID 300-8x"
The initial quote I received included a 3ware card, so I inquired if the vendor stocked an OpenBSD-supported LSI card.
It couldn't have been much clearer. Marco, then rednerd, then I gave kudos to LSI. Try to follow along, huh?