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authormjacob <mjacob@FreeBSD.org>2007-04-07 04:01:00 +0000
committermjacob <mjacob@FreeBSD.org>2007-04-07 04:01:00 +0000
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Update the man page a bit- also to reflect that testing
that Jun Kuriyama did to verify the PCI-Express (Apple Fibre Channel) HBA. MFC after: 3 days
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@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd June 5, 2006
+.Dd April 6, 2007
.Dt MPT 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -104,10 +104,14 @@ LSI Logic 7202XP-LC
LSI Logic FC949X
(Dual 4Gb/s
.Tn Fibre Channel )
+.It
+LSI Logic FC949ES
+(Dual 4Gb/s
+.Tn Fibre Channel PCI-Express)
.El
.Pp
The
-.Tn SCSI
+.Tn Ultra 320 SCSI
controller chips supported by the
.Nm
driver can be found onboard on many systems including:
@@ -127,7 +131,17 @@ The
controller chips are also present on many new AMD/Opteron based systems,
like the Sun 4100.
Note that this controller can drive both SAS and SATA
-drives or a mix of them at the same time.
+drives or a mix of them at the same time. The Integrated Raid Mirroring
+available for these controllers is poorly supported at best.
+.Pp
+The
+.Tn Fibre Channel
+controller chipset are supported by a broad variety of speeds and systems.
+The
+.Tn Apple
+Fibre Channel HBA is in fact the
+.Tn FC949ES
+card.
.Pp
This driver also supports target mode for Fibre Channel cards.
This support may be enabled by setting the desired role of the core via
@@ -158,12 +172,12 @@ driver was originally written for
.Fx
by
.An Greg Ansley
-and substantially improved upon
+and marginally improved upon
by
-.An Matt Jacob Aq mjacob@FreeBSD.org
+.An Matt Jacob Aq mjacob@FreeBSD.org .
+.Pp
+.An Justin Gibbs Aq gibbs@FreeBSD.org
and
-.An Justin Gibbs Aq gibbs@FreeBSD.org .
+.An Scott Long Aq scottl@FreeBSD.org
+have made more substantial improvements.
.Sh BUGS
-This driver has been reported to have problems under the VMware ESX server.
-.Pp
-This driver does not yet work on big endian machines like Sparc64.
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