Re: Adding support for lsi 3ware 9750 and 8 cores

On 2014-03-30 19:19, Seth Bardash wrote:

> Single AMD opteron 6000 series, 8 cores,
> Supermicro H8SGL Motherboard,
> 8 GB DDR3-1333 RECC DRAM,

Sounds like an unnecessary limitation.


> LSI 4 port raid controller with 3 disks (RAID 1 + hot spare) in
> shuttles

Better invest in a 4th disk and use RAID 10.


> 4 LAN ports - all intel pro/1000 type
> Redundant HS power supplies.
>
> This should provide an extremely reliable and long lasting
> firewall.
>
> I ask now with all due regard for the great effort put forth on
> IPCOP:
>
> Can the development team add support for the LSI 9750-4i
> controller:
>
> driver 3w-sas
> Source code is available for the 2.6.32 kernel as a simple
> download from LSI under support, driver source code.
> http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public/SATA/SATA%20Common%20Files/dri
> ver-linux-97xx-10.2.2.1.zip
>
> Can the development team add support for up to 8 cores instead of
> the present 4 core limit?

Better to change to 64 or even 128. While at it, drop support for i486 
etc. and require X86_64.


> It should only require a single line change in the kernel build.
>
> I would be glad to make these changes if someone can point me to
> the correct method
> of creating a build environment and adding changes and drivers.
> Plus the proper method of how to report them back to the
> development team.

http://www.ipcop.org/development.php


Olaf

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