mpi(4)

mpi4

Lsi logic fusion-mpt message passing interface

Usage

mpi* at pci?

Overview

The mpi driver provides support for storage controllers using the LSI Logic Fusion-MPT Message Passing Interface family of chipsets:

  • LSI Logic LSI53C1020, LSI53C1020A, LSI53C1030, LSI53C1030T, LSI53C1035, LSIFC909, LSIFC919, LSIFC919X, LSIFC929, LSIFC929X, LSIFC949, LSIFC949E, LSIFC949X, LSISAS1064, LSISAS1064E, LSISAS1068, LSISAS1068E

These chipsets can be found on the following controllers:

  • Apple Fibre Channel PCI Express Card, Fibre Channel PCI-X Card

  • Dell PERC 4/im, SAS 5/E, SAS 5/i, SAS 5/iR, SAS 6/iR

  • Hewlett-Packard 8 Internal Port SAS Host Bus Adapter with RAID, A7173A, AB290A, EH417AA

  • LSI Logic LSI20320-R, LSI21320-IS, LSI21320-R, LSI22320-R, LSI40919H, LSI40919LH, LSI40919LO, LSI40919O, LSI40929H, LSI40929LH, LSI40929LO, LSI40929O, LSI7102XP, LSI7102XP-LC, LSI7104EP-LC, LSI7104XP-LC, LSI7202CP-LC, LSI7202EP-LC, LSI7202XP, LSI7202XP-LC, LSI7204EP-LC, LSI7204XP-LC, LSI7402XP, LSI7402XP-LC, LSI7404EP-LC, LSI7404XP-LC, LSISAS3041E-R, LSISAS3041X-R, LSISAS3080X-R, LSISAS3442E-R, LSISAS3442X, LSISAS3442X-R, LSISAS3800X, LSISAS3801E, LSISAS3801X, LSISAS8208ELP, LSISAS8208XLP, LSIU320

The LSI Logic LSI53C1030 is emulated in the following products:

  • VMware ESX Server 2.0 and higher, GSX Server 3.0 and higher, Player, Server, Workstation 4.5 and higher

Some models of these controllers have varying degrees of support for RAID 0 and RAID 1.

Releases

42 releases since OpenBSD 4.0; the text changed 7 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 4.1
  3. 4.2
  4. 4.3–4.6
  5. 4.7
  6. 4.8–5.2
  7. 5.3
  8. 5.4–8.0

History

The mpi driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.0.

Authors

The mpi driver was written by David Gwynne ⟨[email protected]⟩ and Marco Peereboom ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.