From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Shubin Subject: Re: Status of the LSI 2108 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:57:06 -0500 Message-ID: <1295567826.20086.89.camel@localhost> References: <1295411153.20086.81.camel@localhost> <20110120153419.806d38e1.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Reply-To: purpleidea@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110120153419.806d38e1.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Randy Dunlap Cc: scsi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, DL-MPTFusionLinux@lsi.com List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Thanks Randy for sending me in the right direction. Hello linux-scsi and LSI. Any thoughts to the below question would be much appreciated! James On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 15:34 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:25:53 -0500 James Shubin wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've been trying to find out if the LSI 2108 is fully supported in the > > vanilla kernel, and any thoughts as to the quality/robustness. > > > > This seems to be the correct source: > > ftp://ftp.supermicro.nl/driver/SAS/LSI/2108/Driver/Linux/v04.31/ > > however I'm not sure at all if it's maintained, or what. I would > > outright test this myself, however I haven't bought the servers yet > > > > Thanks for your help, > > Please cc-me on replies. > > Hi, > > Probably better to ask on the linux-scsi mailing list [added]. > Also added the lsi.com email address. > > > drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_scsih.c contains this: > > /* Liberator ~ 2108 */ > { MPI2_MFGPAGE_VENDORID_LSI, MPI2_MFGPAGE_DEVID_SAS2108_1, > PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID }, > { MPI2_MFGPAGE_VENDORID_LSI, MPI2_MFGPAGE_DEVID_SAS2108_2, > PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID }, > { MPI2_MFGPAGE_VENDORID_LSI, MPI2_MFGPAGE_DEVID_SAS2108_3, > PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID }, > > so it looks like there is at least some basic support for the 2108. > > > --- > ~Randy > *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***