Re: [gentoo-user] How to use SR-IOV on a LSI RAID controller

2018-03-08 Thread R0b0t1
On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 6:07 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > Again please I know how to assign devices and my board has excellent IOMMU > groups that is not the issue - I want to know how to create the SR-IOV > virtual functions and assign drives to them to use the same controller on > more than one V

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use SR-IOV on a LSI RAID controller

2018-03-08 Thread taii...@gmx.com
On 03/08/2018 06:55 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/PCI_passthrough https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vfio.txt The one sticking point is that you need to figure out the layout of your PCIe lanes to s

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use SR-IOV on a LSI RAID controller

2018-03-08 Thread R0b0t1
On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 4:14 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > On 03/07/2018 09:02 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 7:52 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: >>> >>> I bought a LSI-9211-8i / SAS 2008 controller which reports support for >>> SR-IOV in lspci and I am wondering how I can use it. >>> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use SR-IOV on a LSI RAID controller

2018-03-08 Thread taii...@gmx.com
On 03/07/2018 09:02 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 7:52 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: I bought a LSI-9211-8i / SAS 2008 controller which reports support for SR-IOV in lspci and I am wondering how I can use it. There is no info on the internet about this not even for their newer control

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use SR-IOV on a LSI RAID controller

2018-03-07 Thread R0b0t1
On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 7:52 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > I bought a LSI-9211-8i / SAS 2008 controller which reports support for > SR-IOV in lspci and I am wondering how I can use it. > > There is no info on the internet about this not even for their newer > controllers where there is a lot of adve

[gentoo-user] How to use SR-IOV on a LSI RAID controller

2018-03-07 Thread taii...@gmx.com
I bought a LSI-9211-8i / SAS 2008 controller which reports support for SR-IOV in lspci and I am wondering how I can use it. There is no info on the internet about this not even for their newer controllers where there is a lot of advertising about SR-IOV. The idea is that you can assign a RAID