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+1 Release Date : Thur. May 03, 2010 09:12:45 PST 2009 -
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+ (emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
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+ Bo Yang
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+2 Current Version : 00.00.04.31-rc1
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+3 Older Version : 00.00.04.17.1-rc1
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+1. Add the Online Controller Reset (OCR) to the Driver.
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+ OCR is the new feature for megaraid_sas driver which
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+ will allow the fw to do the chip reset which will not
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+ affact the OS behavious.
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+
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+ To add the OCR support, driver need to do:
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+ a). reset the controller chips -- Xscale and Gen2 which
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+ will change the function calls and add the reset function
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+ related to this two chips.
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+
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+ b). during the reset, driver will store the pending cmds
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+ which not returned by FW to driver's pending queue. Driver
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+ will re-issue those pending cmds again to FW after the OCR
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+ finished.
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+
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+ c). In driver's timeout routine, driver will report to
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+ OS as reset. Also driver's queue routine will block the
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+ cmds until the OCR finished.
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+
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+ d). in Driver's ISR routine, if driver get the FW state as
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+ state change, FW in Failure status and FW support online controller
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+ reset (OCR), driver will start to do the controller reset.
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+
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+ e). In driver's IOCTL routine, the application cmds will wait for the
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+ OCR to finish, then issue the cmds to FW.
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+
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+ f). Before driver kill adapter, driver will do last chance of
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+ OCR to see if driver can bring back the FW.
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+
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+2. Add the support update flag to the driver to tell LSI megaraid_sas
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+ application which driver will support the device update. So application
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+ will not need to do the device update after application add/del the device
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+ from the system.
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+3. In driver's timeout routine, driver will do three time reset if fw is in
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+ failed state. Driver will kill adapter if can't bring back FW after the
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+ this three times reset.
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+4. Add the input parameter max_sectors to 1MB support to our GEN2 controller.
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+ customer can use the input paramenter max_sectors to add 1MB support to GEN2
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+ controller.
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1 Release Date : Thur. Oct 29, 2009 09:12:45 PST 2009 -
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(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
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Bo Yang
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Yang, Bo