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0001405channel: elrepo/el8kmod-sym53c8xxpublic2023-11-27 18:52
Reporterjasonm Assigned Topperry  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityN/A
Status resolvedResolutionfixed 
Summary0001405: Request kmod-sym53c8xx for EL8
DescriptionWe still use these controllers a lot, and the lack of 8.x support for it (and lack of knowledge on how to create one of these ourselves!) is blocking our AlmaLinux 8 aspirations. Thanks in advance!
Additional Information[jasonm@hou-tr2 ~]$ lspci -v -nn -s 37:04.0
37:04.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: Broadcom / LSI 53c875 [1000:000f] (rev 14)
    Subsystem: Broadcom / LSI LSI53C876/E PCI to Dual Channel SCSI Controller [1000:1000]
    Physical Slot: 6
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 7
    I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
    Memory at e8003000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
    Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
    Expansion ROM at e8010000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=64K]
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toracat

2023-11-16 17:09

administrator   ~0009430

Acknowledged.

toracat

2023-11-16 17:31

administrator   ~0009432

In kernel-4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9
... /drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/

Makefile
sym53c8xx.h
sym_defs.h
sym_fw1.h
sym_fw2.h
sym_fw.c
sym_fw.h
sym_glue.c
sym_glue.h
sym_hipd.c
sym_hipd.h
sym_malloc.c
sym_misc.h
sym_nvram.c
sym_nvram.h

toracat

2023-11-16 17:39

administrator   ~0009433

@jasonm

Is this request for el 8.8?

jasonm

2023-11-16 17:47

reporter   ~0009434

Hi toracat, yes it is for 8.8. We probably won't be on 8.9 for a bit after it's released just in case.

pperry

2023-11-18 10:11

administrator   ~0009440

I have build the following packages for RHEL 8.9 and released them to the el8 testing repository:

kmod-sym53c8xx-0.0-1.el8_9.elrepo.src.rpm
kmod-sym53c8xx-0.0-1.el8_9.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

Please note these are built for el8.9 and will likely not be backward compatible with earlier releases.

I would appreciate feedback if you can confirm these are working as expected once you have had the chance to test.

I will make a Driver Update Disk image (DUD) shortly and upload here:

https://elrepo.org/linux/dud/el8/x86_64/

Thanks

pperry

2023-11-18 10:29

administrator   ~0009441

The Driver Update Disk image (DUD) is now available

dd-sym53c8xx-0.0-1.el8_9.elrepo.iso
dd-sym53c8xx-0.0-1.el8_9.elrepo.SHA256SUM.asc

$ cat dd-sym53c8xx-0.0-1.el8_9.elrepo.SHA256SUM.asc
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

05f1419fb644484b7571ce5ecf1fb614897dd710d45b1605df65ad7524156457 dd-sym53c8xx-0.0-1.el8_9.elrepo.iso
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

iF0EARECAB0WIQSWwBBPYxVHMR4Lsa4wm8MFuq2uUgUCZVjXjQAKCRAwm8MFuq2u
Ul6mAKDq/FbaddBlgriIRx6kXaHZxu9ycACcCv88Yc7U2Ep9/8yZVOabKvxgTlY=
=Yi8T
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

toracat

2023-11-23 02:03

administrator   ~0009447

@jasonm

AlmaLinux 8.9 announced.: https://almalinux.org/blog/2023-11-21-announcing-89-stable/

You can now use the DUD image for el8.9 and do the installation.

jasonm

2023-11-23 11:40

reporter   ~0009449

Thanks toracat and pperry! It's thanksgiving long weekend where these controllers get used, but in the meantime I'll download the 8.9 iso and get that added to our kickstart servers in preparation.

jasonm

2023-11-27 17:57

reporter   ~0009457

Hi toracat and pperry I got confirmation that this driver module loads and it sees an old geezer Exabyte drive that's attached to it! Thanks for your services, guys!

# lsscsi
[...]
[6:0:0:0] tape EXABYTE Mammoth2 v03c -

pperry

2023-11-27 18:52

administrator   ~0009458

Fantastic.

Marking as resolved - happy we could help!

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2023-11-16 17:02 jasonm New Issue
2023-11-16 17:02 jasonm Status new => assigned
2023-11-16 17:02 jasonm Assigned To => toracat
2023-11-16 17:09 toracat Assigned To toracat => pperry
2023-11-16 17:09 toracat Status assigned => acknowledged
2023-11-16 17:09 toracat Note Added: 0009430
2023-11-16 17:31 toracat Note Added: 0009432
2023-11-16 17:39 toracat Note Added: 0009433
2023-11-16 17:47 jasonm Note Added: 0009434
2023-11-18 10:11 pperry Note Added: 0009440
2023-11-18 10:12 pperry Status acknowledged => feedback
2023-11-18 10:13 pperry Category --elrepo--request-for-enhancement-- => kmod-sym53c8xx
2023-11-18 10:29 pperry Note Added: 0009441
2023-11-23 02:03 toracat Note Added: 0009447
2023-11-23 11:40 jasonm Note Added: 0009449
2023-11-23 11:40 jasonm Status feedback => assigned
2023-11-27 17:57 jasonm Note Added: 0009457
2023-11-27 18:52 pperry Note Added: 0009458
2023-11-27 18:52 pperry Status assigned => resolved
2023-11-27 18:52 pperry Resolution open => fixed