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30.\" mps driver man page.
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32.\" Author: Ken Merry <ken@FreeBSD.org>
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30.\" mps driver man page.
31.\"
32.\" Author: Ken Merry <ken@FreeBSD.org>
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34.\" $Id: //depot/SpectraBSD/head/share/man/man4/mps.4#6 $
35.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/mps.4 231170 2012-02-07 23:43:29Z ken $
35.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/mps.4 233648 2012-03-29 05:02:12Z eadler $
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37.Dd February 7, 2012
38.Dt MPS 4
39.Os
40.Sh NAME
41.Nm mps
42.Nd LSI Fusion-MPT 2 Serial Attached SCSI driver
43.Sh SYNOPSIS

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112.Nm
113driver instance, set the following tunable value in
114.Xr loader.conf 5 :
115.Bd -literal -offset indent
116dev.mps.X.disable_msix=1
117.Ed
118.Pp
119To set the maximum number of DMA chains allocated for all adapters,
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37.Dd February 7, 2012
38.Dt MPS 4
39.Os
40.Sh NAME
41.Nm mps
42.Nd LSI Fusion-MPT 2 Serial Attached SCSI driver
43.Sh SYNOPSIS

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112.Nm
113driver instance, set the following tunable value in
114.Xr loader.conf 5 :
115.Bd -literal -offset indent
116dev.mps.X.disable_msix=1
117.Ed
118.Pp
119To set the maximum number of DMA chains allocated for all adapters,
120set the following variable in
120set the following variable in
121.Xr loader.conf 5 :
122.Bd -literal -offset indent
123hw.mps.max_chains=NNNN
124.Ed
125.Pp
126To set the maximum number of DMA chains allocated for a specific adapter,
127set the following variable in
128.Xr loader.conf 5 :

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202This man page was written by
203.An Ken Merry Aq ken@FreeBSD.org .
204.Sh BUGS
205This driver has a couple of known shortcomings:
206.Bl -bullet -compact
207.It
208Not endian safe.
209It only works on little endian machines (e.g. amd64 and i386).
121.Xr loader.conf 5 :
122.Bd -literal -offset indent
123hw.mps.max_chains=NNNN
124.Ed
125.Pp
126To set the maximum number of DMA chains allocated for a specific adapter,
127set the following variable in
128.Xr loader.conf 5 :

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202This man page was written by
203.An Ken Merry Aq ken@FreeBSD.org .
204.Sh BUGS
205This driver has a couple of known shortcomings:
206.Bl -bullet -compact
207.It
208Not endian safe.
209It only works on little endian machines (e.g. amd64 and i386).
210.It
210.It
211No userland utility available (e.g.
212.Xr mptutil 8)
213.It
214The driver probes devices sequentially.
215If your system has a large number of devices, the probe will take a while.
216.El
211No userland utility available (e.g.
212.Xr mptutil 8)
213.It
214The driver probes devices sequentially.
215If your system has a large number of devices, the probe will take a while.
216.El