Re: Available options for managing mfi(4) with NetBSD 6.0? (Linux MegaCli)

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 05:11:58PM +0000, Hugo Silva wrote:
> On 11/08/12 16:36, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > You have to create /dev/mfi0 as well:
> > crw-------  1 root  wheel  205, 0 Sep 13 21:39 /dev/mfi0
> > 
> > and don't mounr /emul/linux/proc, but just create a fake
> > /emul/linux/proc/devices containing:
> > Character devices:
> > 205 megaraid_sas_ioctl
> > 
> > I think nothing more is needed
> 
> I unmounted proc and /emul/linux/proc/devices now looks like:
> 
> Character devices:
> 205 megaraid_sas_ioctl
> 
> 
> mfi0 was created with: /usr/pkg/emul/linux/bin/mknod -m 600 mfi0 c 205 0
> 
> /emul/linux/proc/dev listing:
> 
> cr--------   1 root  wheel  - 205, 0 Nov  8 17:05 megaraid_sas_ioctl_node
> crw-------   1 root  wheel  - 205, 0 Nov  8 17:07 mfi0
> 
> 
> (the ioctl_node file appears when I run MegaCli64)
> 
> 
> But still, no adapters detected:
> 
> # ./MegaCli64 -AdpAllInfo -aALL
> 
> Exit Code: 0x00
> 
> 
> ktrace has this to add:
> 
>   6829   6829 MegaCli64 GIO   fd 3 read 42 bytes
>        "Character devices:\n205 megaraid_sas_ioctl\n"
>   6829   6829 MegaCli64 RET   read 42/0x2a
>   6829   6829 MegaCli64 CALL  close(3)
>   6829   6829 MegaCli64 RET   close 0
>   6829   6829 MegaCli64 CALL  munmap(0x7f7ff7ff4000,0x4000)
>   6829   6829 MegaCli64 RET   munmap 0
>   6829   6829 MegaCli64 CALL  access(0x60bafc,4)
>   6829   6829 MegaCli64 NAMI  "/emul/linux/dev/megaraid_sas_ioctl_node"
>   6829   6829 MegaCli64 RET   access 0
>   6829   6829 MegaCli64 CALL  stat64(0x60bafc,0x7f7ffffff040)
>   6829   6829 MegaCli64 NAMI  "/emul/linux/dev/megaraid_sas_ioctl_node"
>   6829   6829 MegaCli64 RET   stat64 0
>   6829   6829 MegaCli64 CALL  open(0x60bafc,0,0xcd)
>   6829   6829 MegaCli64 NAMI  "/emul/linux/dev/megaraid_sas_ioctl_node"
>   6829   6829 MegaCli64 RET   open -1 errno -6 Device not configured

What kernel are you running ? You need a recent netbsd-6 (not netbsd-6-0)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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