[sles-beta] cciss driver for HP hardware

[Darren Thompson]

Tom

Most of my customers would have "some" of the G5 hardware still in use.

In most cases it's a test/dev type setup.

You could run SLES11SP3 - XEN or VMWARE on the hardware and still use it
for SLES12 VMs

Darren


On 24 June 2014 13:18, Tom Parker <tparker at cbnco.com> wrote:

> Thanks Matthias.
>
> The hpsa_allow_any=1 does not work on the G5 HP hardware.
>
> What I do find interesting is that openSuSE 13.1 which is running
> 3.11.10 has no problem on these systems and has both the cciss driver
> and the hpsa driver available.  It uses the cciss driver on the old
> hardware and the hpsa driver on the new.  My frustration is that I don't
> see a reason for a mainline kernel driver to be removed.  If there are
> conflicts with the pciids between these two drivers then it would seem
> that a relatively simple patch should be able to remove any pciids that
> should go to the hpsa kernel module from the cciss module
>
> I guess for my older servers I will have to stick to SLES 11 SP3.  Sadly
> this means that for my Dev and QA labs I will have to make a significant
> investment to upgrade our physical infrastructure to run SLES 12.
>
> Does anyone else on this list still use HP G5 servers?
>
> Tom
>
> On 23/06/14 11:01 PM, Matthias G. Eckermann wrote:
> > Hello Tom and all,
> >
> > as already said in my last E-Mail about this topic, we
> > are taking input on drivers also from the vendor of the
> > respective hardware.
> >
> > Regressions on this we try to mitigate, and compared to
> > other recent distributions, SLES 12 has special code in
> > the hpsa driver to support more of the older
> > controllers, i.e. more than the upstream driver.
> >
> > I just realize that this advice is not reflected in the
> > Release Notes yet (please file an SR!), thus: please
> > try "hpsa_allow_any=1" as a kernel commandline option.
> >
> > This will put the hpsa driver in a mode not supported by
> > HP (and subsequently not us, see:
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/scsi/hpsa.txt),
> > but at least you are able use the device for testing.
> >
> > I apologize for any inconvenience, but as also said,
> > this is out of SUSE's control.
> >
> > so long -
> >       MgE
> >
> >
> > On 2014-06-23 T 16:51 -0400 Tom Parker wrote:
> >> Thanks Matthias.
> >>
> >> Why has the cciss driver been removed from the distro?  I assume that it
> >> is still in the linux kernel.  Is there a reason to deliberately stop
> >> compiling it?
> >>
> >> I am sure that I am not the only person who has tons of older servers
> >> that still work 100% but will be unable to run SLES 12 because of this
> >> change.
> >>
> >> Tom
> >>
> >>
> >> On 21/06/14 09:59 AM, Tom Parker wrote:
> >>> Has the old cciss driver been removed from the kernel?  On my SP3
> >>> systems I see from lspci that both the hspa and cciss drivers are
> >>> available for this PCIID
> >>>
> >>> 0b:08.0 RAID bus controller: Hewlett-Packard Company Smart Array E200i
> >>> (SAS Controller)
> >>>         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Smart Array E200i
> >>>         Kernel driver in use: cciss
> >>>         Kernel modules: hpsa, cciss
> >>>
> >>> I will have to test beta 9 on an old server on Monday
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>>
> >>> Tom
> >>>
> >>> On 21/06/14 06:22 AM, Matthias G. Eckermann wrote:
> >>>> Hello Tom and all,
> >>>>
> >>>> On 2014-06-20 T 23:44 -0400 Tom Parker wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I see that the cciss driver for older HP hardware is
> >>>>> no longer supported.  Does this mean it has been
> >>>>> removed from the kernel and is no longer available or
> >>>>> just that SLES will not support systems using this
> >>>>> driver?
> >>>> please see the Release Notes, chapter 4.2.2:
> >>>>
> https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/12/#Driver_Updates.Storage
> >>>>
> >>>> Compared to other recent distributions, SLES 12 has
> >>>> special code in the hpsa driver to support more of the
> >>>> older controllers, i.e. more than the upstream driver.
> >>>>
> >>>>> We still have many HP BL460 G5 servers running in QA
> >>>>> and Development that have many more years of useful
> >>>>> life in them and all of them use the Hewlett-Packard
> >>>>> Company Smart Array E200i Controller which is listed
> >>>>> as not supported
> >>>> However, unfortunately, the E200i is not among those,
> >>>> where we can implement this.
> >>>>
> >>>> I am afraid, this is out of SUSE's control and should be
> >>>> brought up with the hardware vendor, who also maintains
> >>>> the upstream driver(s).
> >>>>
> >>>> so long -
> >>>>    MgE
> >>>>
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