Subject: Re: OpenBSD's mpi(4)
To: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/24/2006 12:17:50
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On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 07:18:05AM +0200, Juan RP wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 15:45:53 -0700
> Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org> wrote:
>=20
> >=20
> > On Aug 9, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> >=20
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > http://taryn.cubidou.net/~cube/netbsd/mpi.diff
> > >
> > > is a tentative port of OpenBSD's mpi(4) driver.  It should handle all
> > > the devices mpt(4) currently supports, plus newer ones, such as all =
=20
> > > the
> > > SAS controllers.
> >=20
> > Does it have all of the features of the FreeBSD mpt driver?
>=20
> Yes, it has all the features. (I've checking the progress of this driver
> for several weeks via cvsweb).=20

Hum, no.  For example, it doesn't reports events.

Although, it *does* have the advantage of working on BE machines, which
is not the case of our mpt(4).

--=20
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.

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