Bug#691346: mfi in 9.1

[Tiziano Zito <opossumnano@gmail.com>]

On Wed 15 Jan, 11:12, Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 01:56:38PM +0100, Mathieu Simon wrote:
> > G'day
> > 
> > Actually FreBSD 9.1 will contain update 'mfi' driver code which
> > largely expands the support for MegaRAID drivers. (confirmed witha
> > 9.1-RC3 media)
> > It might be interesting for you to boo a native FreeBSD ISO of
> > this version to see if your controller is recognized by this mfi module.
> > (use "pciconf -lvb | grep mfi" and "mfiutil show adapter" to check)
> 
> Tiziano, did you try with 9.1 kernel as suggested? Actually, you could
> try 10.0~rc from unstable, it might give better results.
> 
> Please let us know if it works for you.

Hi, 

sorry for not following up on this sooner. Last year I decided to go
the FreeBSD route and updated the kernel module as specified on the
LSI website. It worked fine.
The upgrade to 9.1 brought the new mfi module, which indeed supports
the controller, so from kernel 9.1 onwards there is no need to
compile any additional module. 

The server is now running a 9.2-RELEASE kernel and everything works
fine. As the server is in production I can not really test a
Debian+kfreebsd installation, but I have no reason to think that it
would make any difference, so for me the bug can be closed :)

Thanks for pinging me about this!
Tiziano