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| 2 | SMARTPQI - Microsemi Smart PQI Driver |
| 3 | ----------------------------------------- |
| 4 | |
| 5 | This file describes the smartpqi SCSI driver for Microsemi |
| 6 | (http://www.microsemi.com) PQI controllers. The smartpqi driver |
| 7 | is the next generation SCSI driver for Microsemi Corp. The smartpqi |
| 8 | driver is the first SCSI driver to implement the PQI queuing model. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | The smartpqi driver will replace the aacraid driver for Adaptec Series 9 |
| 11 | controllers. Customers running an older kernel (Pre-4.9) using an Adaptec |
| 12 | Series 9 controller will have to configure the smartpqi driver or their |
| 13 | volumes will not be added to the OS. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | For Microsemi smartpqi controller support, enable the smartpqi driver |
| 16 | when configuring the kernel. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | For more information on the PQI Queuing Interface, please see: |
| 19 | http://www.t10.org/drafts.htm |
| 20 | http://www.t10.org/members/w_pqi2.htm |
| 21 | |
| 22 | Supported devices: |
| 23 | ------------------ |
| Don Brace | fcc2778 | 2017-10-20 14:11:51 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | <Controller names to be added as they become publicly available.> |
| Don Brace | 425b490 | 2016-08-31 14:55:30 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | |
| 26 | smartpqi specific entries in /sys |
| 27 | ----------------------------- |
| 28 | |
| 29 | smartpqi host attributes: |
| 30 | ------------------------- |
| 31 | /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/rescan |
| 32 | /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/version |
| 33 | |
| 34 | The host rescan attribute is a write only attribute. Writing to this |
| 35 | attribute will trigger the driver to scan for new, changed, or removed |
| 36 | devices and notify the SCSI mid-layer of any changes detected. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | The version attribute is read-only and will return the driver version |
| 39 | and the controller firmware version. |
| 40 | For example: |
| 41 | driver: 0.9.13-370 |
| 42 | firmware: 0.01-522 |
| 43 | |
| 44 | smartpqi sas device attributes |
| 45 | ------------------------------ |
| 46 | HBA devices are added to the SAS transport layer. These attributes are |
| 47 | automatically added by the SAS transport layer. |
| 48 | |
| 49 | /sys/class/sas_device/end_device-X:X/sas_address |
| 50 | /sys/class/sas_device/end_device-X:X/enclosure_identifier |
| 51 | /sys/class/sas_device/end_device-X:X/scsi_target_id |
| 52 | |
| 53 | smartpqi specific ioctls: |
| 54 | ------------------------- |
| 55 | |
| 56 | For compatibility with applications written for the cciss protocol. |
| 57 | |
| 58 | CCISS_DEREGDISK |
| 59 | CCISS_REGNEWDISK |
| 60 | CCISS_REGNEWD |
| 61 | |
| 62 | The above three ioctls all do exactly the same thing, which is to cause the driver |
| 63 | to rescan for new devices. This does exactly the same thing as writing to the |
| 64 | smartpqi specific host "rescan" attribute. |
| 65 | |
| 66 | CCISS_GETPCIINFO |
| 67 | |
| 68 | Returns PCI domain, bus, device and function and "board ID" (PCI subsystem ID). |
| 69 | |
| 70 | CCISS_GETDRIVVER |
| 71 | |
| 72 | Returns driver version in three bytes encoded as: |
| 73 | (DRIVER_MAJOR << 28) | (DRIVER_MINOR << 24) | (DRIVER_RELEASE << 16) | DRIVER_REVISION; |
| 74 | |
| 75 | CCISS_PASSTHRU |
| 76 | |
| 77 | Allows "BMIC" and "CISS" commands to be passed through to the Smart Storage Array. |
| 78 | These are used extensively by the SSA Array Configuration Utility, SNMP storage |
| 79 | agents, etc. |
| 80 | |