Bug#890034: Backport of Perc 740/840 for Stretch
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 12:37:40PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> I've pulled a number of upstream commits for the megaraid_sas driver which add
> support for the Perc 740/840 RAID controllers to the Stretch kernel.
>
> Successfully tested with a H840 on a current Dell PowerEdge R440 and I've also tested
> the built kernel on a system which was previously supported by the megaraid_sas
> driver (LSI MegaRAID SAS 2008 (Perc H310 Mini)) and that continues to work fine
> as well.
>
> Test debs (I'd appreciate more tests on MegaRAID controllers, the 740 should be
> identical to the 840 except that it allows for less drives) are at
> https://people.debian.org/~jmm/perc/
I've tried your kernel on a R740 with Buster userland (I did not find
an easy way to build a new Stretch debian-installer image with the
updated kernel) and it works just fine.
> Merge request at https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/merge_requests/61
There have been a few style comments by Ben Hutchings.
Bernhard
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