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43 .Nd LSI Fusion-MPT SCSI/Fibre Channel driver
45 To compile this driver into the kernel,
46 place the following lines in your
47 kernel configuration file:
48 .Bd -ragged -offset indent
53 Alternatively, to load the driver as a
54 module at boot time, place the following line in
56 .Bd -literal -offset indent
62 driver provides support
63 for the LSI Logic Fusion-MPT family of
70 .Bl -tag -width indent
71 .It Va hw.mpt.msi.enable
72 This tunable specifies whether MSI will be used or not, provided the
73 controller supports it.
74 By default, the driver will use MSI for SAS adapters.
77 The following controllers are supported by the
85 (Single and Dual Ultra320
118 .Tn Fibre Channel PCI-Express)
123 controller chips supported by the
125 driver can be found onboard on many systems including:
129 Dell PowerEdge 1750 thru 2850
131 IBM eServer xSeries 335
134 These systems also contain Integrated Raid Mirroring and Integrated
135 Raid Mirroring Enhanced which this driver also supports.
139 controller chips are also present on many new AMD/Opteron based systems,
141 Note that this controller can drive both SAS and SATA
142 drives or a mix of them at the same time.
143 The Integrated Raid Mirroring
144 available for these controllers is poorly supported at best.
148 controller chipset are supported by a broad variety of speeds and systems.
151 Fibre Channel HBA is in fact the
155 This driver also supports target mode for Fibre Channel cards.
156 This support may be enabled by setting the desired role of the core via
157 the LSI Logic firmware utility that establishes what roles the card
158 can take on - no separate compilation is required.
169 .%T "LSI Logic Website"
170 .%O http://www.lsi.com/
175 driver first appeared in
181 driver was originally written for
185 and marginally improved upon
187 .An Matt Jacob Aq mjacob@FreeBSD.org .
189 .An Justin Gibbs Aq gibbs@FreeBSD.org
191 .An Scott Long Aq scottl@FreeBSD.org
192 have made more substantial improvements.