On 4 June 2015 at 08:03, Frank Kardel <kar...@netbsd.org> wrote: > On 06/03/15 20:27, Christos Zoulas wrote: >> >> In article <20150603111042.4fad14b2@taliesin-2.local>, >> Harry Waddell <wadd...@caravaninfotech.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 16:13:07 +0100 (BST) >>> Stephen Borrill <net...@precedence.co.uk> 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 > > One of our customer systems (Dell PowerEdge R730) has this card. I got it to > work by adding the pciids to the driver and crudely adjusting the > thunderbolt support to use EOM markers, remove the setting of a flag. I/O > seemed to be working (installation was ok and the system was running fine. > Issues left were: Absysmal I/O performance on SSDs (no non SSDs were > available) in the range of 5 - 40 Mb/sec averaging around 20 Mb/sec. > Checking other OS delivered: FreeBSD 10 - 5 MB/sec, OpenBSD 420 Mb/sec > slowly decreasing. Linux SuSe 13.2 - 525-490 MB/sec. So due to time > constraints and a customer machine we went for the fastest. Patches > (mis-using the MFI_IOP type for thunderbolt) have been postedalready. > OpenBSD seems to have an additional change in the way i/o commands are > handled.
Would it help to get a card or machine into the hands of someone with time to work on the driver? Maybe something like http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251453703470 ? I'm happy to throw something into the pot :)