[OmniOS-discuss] imr_sas has no quiesce

[Fábio Rabelo]

OmniOS did not recognized any hard disk attached to the controller before
the driver installation .

The diver are present in download section of Intel site .

If there are a better option, how can I use it ?!?


Fábio Rabelo


2013/4/12 Eric Sproul <esproul at omniti.com>

> quiesce(9E) is required for Fast Reboot, which is the default reboot
> method.  Fast Reboot avoids going through BIOS/EFI boot by loading a
> new copy of the kernel into memory and jumping to it, thereby saving
> time, especially on large systems, where memory and device enumeration
> can take 5 minutes or more.  In order to make this possible, all
> devices must be stopped from sending interrupts or modifying memory,
> hence quiesce().  What those messages are telling you is that those
> drivers don't support quiesce(), which *should* be followed by a
> reboot through BIOS/EFI.
>
> You can try 'reboot -p' which will force the system to boot fully
> through hardware POST, which will avoid the attempt to quiesce.  If
> this works for you, you can make the change permanent by altering the
> configuration of the system/boot-config:default service:
>
> # svccfg -s "system/boot-config:default" \
>        setprop config/fastreboot_default=false
> # svcadm refresh svc:/system/boot-config:default
>
> Thereafter, a regular 'reboot' will work the same as 'reboot -p'.
>
> Note that there is a pending issue to add quiesce() to ixgbe:
> https://www.illumos.org/issues/3708
>
> The message about "imr_sas" is strange, since we don't ship that
> driver.  It is an old, closed-source driver from LSI.  Did you obtain
> it from somewhere else?  Your card should be supported by mr_sas in
> OmniOS bloody and in the upcoming r151006 stable release.
>
> Eric
>
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