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* Linux support for the LSI SAS8208ELP
@ 2010-12-31 16:43 Christian Schmidt
  2010-12-31 17:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
  2010-12-31 18:53 ` Moore, Eric
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Christian Schmidt @ 2010-12-31 16:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eric Moore, support, linux-scsi

Hi,

I've recently bought a mainboard that's equipped with a device that is
identified (by lspci) as LSI SAS8208ELP (Vendor ID 0x1000, Device ID
0x0059). It's not currently supported by the Linux kernel, but appears
to be working with the mpt fusion sas driver.

echo "0x1000 0x0059" >/sys/bus/pci/drivers/mptsas/new_id

brings the chip online. It seems I'm not the only one with this chip, see

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-731366.html
http://bugs.gentoo.org/325805
http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=236721 (patch to add the device ID)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1519373

and more.

Since LSI seems to only provide closed source drivers for far obsolete
and limited "enterprise" distribution kernels I'd suggest the inclusion
of the PCI IDs into the kernel.

Regards,
Christian

PS: Here's a full list of device IDs:

[/tmp]>modinfo megasr.ko
filename:       megasr.ko
license:        LSI Proprietary
description:    LSI Software RAID5 Driver
version:        13.15.1218.2009
author:         LSI Corporation
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002683sv00001734sd000010C9bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00008086d00002683sv00001734sd00001090bc*sc*i*
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depends:        scsi_mod
vermagic:       2.6.9-55.EL gcc-3.4
parm:           dbglvl_g:driver-wide debug flag

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* Re: Linux support for the LSI SAS8208ELP
  2010-12-31 16:43 Linux support for the LSI SAS8208ELP Christian Schmidt
@ 2010-12-31 17:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
  2011-01-01 17:32   ` Christian Schmidt
  2010-12-31 18:53 ` Moore, Eric
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Matthew Wilcox @ 2010-12-31 17:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christian Schmidt; +Cc: Eric Moore, support, linux-scsi

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 05:43:29PM +0100, Christian Schmidt wrote:
> Since LSI seems to only provide closed source drivers for far obsolete
> and limited "enterprise" distribution kernels I'd suggest the inclusion
> of the PCI IDs into the kernel.

http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=129019864003449&w=2

(ok, 0x55 vs 0x59, but dollars-to-doughnuts it's the same 'problem')

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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* RE: Linux support for the LSI SAS8208ELP
  2010-12-31 16:43 Linux support for the LSI SAS8208ELP Christian Schmidt
  2010-12-31 17:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
@ 2010-12-31 18:53 ` Moore, Eric
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Moore, Eric @ 2010-12-31 18:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christian Schmidt, Support, Software, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org

This has been asked for many times before.   The deal is we don't support the MegaRAID software raid controllers with the mptsas driver.   The firmware and BIOS that goes on the megaraid controllers is developed and tested by the MegaRAID team, and designed to work with the megasr driver.    So if you were to add those device ids to mptsas mainstream drivers, our division of LSI is not going to be able to  provide support those configurations; in other words,  we have never validated those controllers with mptsas driver, and our driver is not guaranteed to work either, and we will not be able to process any issues reported by those device ids like 0x59.     You probably should contact the MegaRAID maintainers like Bo Yang, and ask for megasr drivers that work for your kernel.  I think they
  have SHIM drivers which is a mix of source code and intellectual property isolated to separate binary, allowing you to compile for other kernels.

Eric Moore
________________________________________
From: Christian Schmidt [charlie@digadd.de]
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 9:43 AM
To: Moore, Eric; Support, Software; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Linux support for the LSI SAS8208ELP

Hi,

I've recently bought a mainboard that's equipped with a device that is
identified (by lspci) as LSI SAS8208ELP (Vendor ID 0x1000, Device ID
0x0059). It's not currently supported by the Linux kernel, but appears
to be working with the mpt fusion sas driver.

echo "0x1000 0x0059" >/sys/bus/pci/drivers/mptsas/new_id

brings the chip online. It seems I'm not the only one with this chip, see

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-731366.html
http://bugs.gentoo.org/325805
http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=236721 (patch to add the device ID)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1519373

and more.

Since LSI seems to only provide closed source drivers for far obsolete
and limited "enterprise" distribution kernels I'd suggest the inclusion
of the PCI IDs into the kernel.

Regards,
Christian

PS: Here's a full list of device IDs:

[/tmp]>modinfo megasr.ko
filename:       megasr.ko
license:        LSI Proprietary
description:    LSI Software RAID5 Driver
version:        13.15.1218.2009
author:         LSI Corporation
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alias:          pci:v00008086d000027C3sv00001734sd000010A5bc*sc*i*
depends:        scsi_mod
vermagic:       2.6.9-55.EL gcc-3.4
parm:           dbglvl_g:driver-wide debug flag

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* Re: Linux support for the LSI SAS8208ELP
  2010-12-31 17:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
@ 2011-01-01 17:32   ` Christian Schmidt
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Christian Schmidt @ 2011-01-01 17:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Matthew Wilcox; +Cc: Eric Moore, linux-scsi

Hi Matthew,

On 12/31/2010 06:52 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 05:43:29PM +0100, Christian Schmidt wrote:
>> Since LSI seems to only provide closed source drivers for far obsolete
>> and limited "enterprise" distribution kernels I'd suggest the inclusion
>> of the PCI IDs into the kernel.
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=129019864003449&w=2
> 
> (ok, 0x55 vs 0x59, but dollars-to-doughnuts it's the same 'problem')

Thanks for the link. On my mainboard it wasn't a BIOS setting but a
jumper that changed the mode.

Regards,
Christian

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