Can anyone tell me if LSI 8208ELP support will be in 8.4?

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Can anyone tell me if LSI 8208ELP support will be in 8.4?

Post by vterm » 2021/03/29 21:07:03

I have been tasked with installing RHEL 8.3 on a server with an embedded RAID controller. The server currently runs RHEL 5.3 (I believe) and they want a newer, cleaned up distro. Through digging I have found that support for the RAID controller was dropped, along with a number of other devices, in the 7.x release and is also not in 8.x . In a Community Discussion on the RH website titled "removal of SAS-2 controller drivers in RHEL 8" it was mentioned that some of the devices dropped in 8.x might be coming back in 8.4 . It was also brought up that "CentOS Stream is a "rolling preview" of what’s next in RHEL. ", so I thought I would come here and ask if anyone would have the information I am seeking. It was a long introduction for the question, are these Device ID supported in Centos Stream:
[1000:0030] -> mptspi
[1000:0059] -> mptsas
[1000:0058] -> mptsas
Thank you.

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Re: Can anyone tell me if LSI 8208ELP support will be in 8.4?

Post by TrevorH » 2021/03/29 22:01:44

You could try installing Stream and asking the kernel if the device is supported:

grep -i 1000 /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.* | grep -iE "0030|0059|0058"

On CentOS Linux 8.3 that says only the 0030 device is supported.
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Re: Can anyone tell me if LSI 8208ELP support will be in 8.4?

Post by vterm » 2021/03/30 17:54:24

I installed Centos-Stream and ran the check you specified. For the record, Centos-Stream does not have support for the 0058|0059 device IDs.
Thank you for the assistance.

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Re: Can anyone tell me if LSI 8208ELP support will be in 8.4?

Post by jabuzzard » 2021/04/23 10:53:49

I have tested with the RHEL 8.4 beta, and can confirm that at least the Dell PERC H700 is now workingon a PowerEdge R710. That's a MegaRAID SAS 2108 [Liberator] (rev 05) with device ID 1000:0079.

The suggestion is that the following have been added back on the LSI front.

[1000:0071] MR SAS HBA 2004
[1000:0073] MegaRAID SAS 2008 [Falcon]
[1000:0079] MegaRAID SAS 2108 [Liberator]

I know that the Adaptec AAC-RAID (rev 09) [9005:0285] has not been added back. I still have a range of hardware to check but the servers being in use and COVID (access to data centre at work requires seeking permission at the moment) limits the amount of testing I can do.

My suggestion would be to get a copy of the 8.4 beta ISO and give it a go. If you sign up for the free developer program I think you can get access.

Another option is to use Oracle Linux with their upbreakable kernel. They add a lot of hardware back in, so if you don't need the RHEL kernel go for it. Unfortunately for me I have requirements on the RHEL kernel for GPFS so that is not an option. We have had to replace a stack of perfectly good HP NC523SFP 10Gb 2-port SFP cards because they are not supported in RHEL8 :cry:

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Re: Can anyone tell me if LSI 8208ELP support will be in 8.4?

Post by TrevorH » 2021/04/23 11:53:40

Doesn't Stream have the same kernel as the RHEL 8.4 beta? Or newer.
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Re: Can anyone tell me if LSI 8208ELP support will be in 8.4?

Post by jabuzzard » 2021/04/29 13:58:39

No idea, the chances of me using Stream for anything are very very low. It's simply not useful to me. The RHEL 8.4beta is using a 4.18.0-293 kernel but whether it is the same as stream is anyone's guess.

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