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1.\"
2.\"  Device driver optimized for the Symbios/LSI 53C896/53C895A/53C1010
3.\"  PCI SCSI controllers.
4.\"
5.\"  Copyright (C) 1999-2000  Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
6.\"
7.\"  This driver also supports the following Symbios/LSI PCI SCSI chips:
8.\"	53C810A, 53C825A, 53C860, 53C875, 53C876, 53C885, 53C895,
9.\"	53C810,  53C815,  53C825 and the 53C1510D is 53C8XX mode.
10.\"
11.\"
12.\"  This driver for FreeBSD-CAM is derived from the Linux sym53c8xx driver.
13.\"  Copyright (C) 1998-1999  Gerard Roudier
14.\"
15.\"  The sym53c8xx driver is derived from the ncr53c8xx driver that had been
16.\"  a port of the FreeBSD ncr driver to Linux-1.2.13.
17.\"
18.\"  The original ncr driver has been written for 386bsd and FreeBSD by
19.\"          Wolfgang Stanglmeier        <wolf@cologne.de>
20.\"          Stefan Esser                <se@mi.Uni-Koeln.de>
21.\"  Copyright (C) 1994  Wolfgang Stanglmeier
22.\"
23.\"  The initialization code, and part of the code that addresses
24.\"  FreeBSD-CAM services is based on the aic7xxx driver for FreeBSD-CAM
25.\"  written by Justin T. Gibbs.
26.\"
27.\"  Other major contributions:
28.\"
29.\"  NVRAM detection and reading.
30.\"  Copyright (C) 1997 Richard Waltham <dormouse@farsrobt.demon.co.uk>
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59.Dd August 19, 2004
60.Dt SYM 4
61.Os
62.Sh NAME
63.Nm sym
64.Nd NCR/Symbios/LSI Logic 53C8XX PCI SCSI host adapter driver
65.Sh SYNOPSIS
66To compile this driver into the kernel,
67place the following lines in your
68kernel configuration file:
69.Bd -ragged -offset indent
70.Cd "device pci"
71.Cd "device scbus"
72.Cd "device sym"
73.Pp
74To disable PCI parity checking (needed for broken bridges):
75.Cd "options SYM_SETUP_PCI_PARITY=<boolean>"
76.Pp
77To control driver probing against HVD buses:
78.Cd "options SYM_SETUP_SCSI_DIFF=<bit combination>"
79.Pp
80To control chip attachment balancing between the ncr driver and this driver:
81.Cd "options SYM_SETUP_LP_PROBE_MAP=<bit combination>"
82.Ed
83.Pp
84Alternatively, to load the driver as a
85module at boot time, place the following line in
86.Xr loader.conf 5 :
87.Bd -literal -offset indent
88sym_load="YES"
89.Ed
90.Sh DESCRIPTION
91This driver provides support for the Symbios/LSI Logic 53C8XX
92PCI SCSI controllers.
93.Pp
94Driver features include support for wide SCSI busses and fast10, fast20,
95fast40 and fast80-dt synchronous data transfers depending on controller
96capabilities.
97It also provides generic SCSI features such as tagged command
98queueing and auto-request sense.
99This driver is configured by default
100for a maximum of 446 outstanding commands per bus, 8 LUNs per target
101and 64 tagged tasks per LUN.
102These numbers are not so much limited by design
103as they are considered reasonable values for current SCSI technology.
104These values can be increased by changing appropriate
105constants in driver header files (not recommended).
106.Pp
107This driver supports the entire Symbios 53C8XX family of PCI SCSI
108controllers.
109It also offers the advantage of architectural improvements available
110only with newer chips.
111.Pp
112.Nm
113notably handles phase mismatch from SCRIPTS for the 53C896, 53C895A,
114and 53C1010 cores.
115As a result, it guarantees that no more than 1 interrupt
116per IO completion is delivered to the CPU, and that the SCRIPTS processor
117is never stalled waiting for CPU attention in normal situations.
118.Pp
119.Nm
120also uses LOAD/STORE SCRIPTS instructions for chips that support it.
121Only the early 810, 815 and 825 NCR chips do not support LOAD/STORE.
122Use of LOAD/STORE instead of MEMORY MOVE allows SCRIPTS to access IO
123registers internal to the chip (no external PCI cycles).
124As a result, the driver guarantees that no PCI self-mastering will occur
125for chips that support LOAD/STORE.
126.Pp
127LOAD/STORE instructions are also faster than MEMORY MOVE because
128they do not involve the chip DMA FIFO and are coded on 2 DWORDs
129instead of 3.
130.Pp
131For the early NCR 810, 815 and 825 chips, the driver uses a separate
132SCRIPTS set that uses MEMORY MOVE instructions for data movements.
133This is because LOAD/STORE are not supported by these chips.
134.Pp
135HVD/LVD capable controllers (895, 895A, 896, and 897) report
136the actual bus mode in the STEST4 chip IO registers.
137This feature
138allows the driver to safely probe against bus mode and to set up the chip
139accordingly.
140By default the driver only supports HVD for these chips.
141For other chips that can support HVD but not LVD, the driver has to probe
142implementation dependent registers (GPIO) in order to detect HVD bus mode.
143Only HVD implementations that conform with Symbios Logic recommendations can
144be detected by the driver.
145When the
146.Ar SYM_SETUP_SCSI_DIFF
147kernel option is assigned
148a value of 1, the driver will also probe against HVD for 825a, 875, 876 and
149885 chips, assuming Symbios Logic compatible implementation of HVD.
150.Pp
151When the
152.Ar SYM_SETUP_PCI_PARITY
153is assigned a value of 0, the
154driver will not enable PCI parity checking for 53C8XX devices.
155PCI parity
156checking should not be an option for PCI SCSI controllers, but some
157systems have been reported to fail using 53C8XX chips, due to spurious or
158permanent PCI parity errors detected.
159This option is supplied for
160convenience but it is neither recommended nor supported.
161.Pp
162The generic
163.Xr ncr 4
164driver also supports SYM53C8XX based PCI SCSI controllers,
165except for the SYM53C1010, which is only supported by the
166.Nm
167driver.
168.Pp
169By default, when both the
170.Xr ncr 4
171and
172.Nm
173drivers are configured, the
174.Nm
175driver takes precedence over the
176.Xr ncr 4
177driver.
178The user can indicate a balancing of chip types between the two drivers
179by defining the
180.Ar SYM_SETUP_LP_PROBE_MAP
181kernel configuration option as follows:
182.Bl -column "0x40"
183.It Em "Bit	Devices to be attached by ncr instead"
184.It "0x01	53C810a, 53C860"
185.It "0x02	53C825a, 53C875, 53C876, 53C885, 53C895"
186.It "0x04	53C895a, 53C896, 53C897, 53C1510d"
187.It "0x40	53C810, 53C815, 53C825"
188.El
189.Pp
190For example, if
191.Ar SYM_SETUP_LP_PROBE_MAP
192is supplied with the value 0x41, the
193.Xr ncr 4
194driver will attach to 53C810, 53C815, 53C825, 53C810a, and 53C860 based
195controllers,
196and the
197.Nm
198driver will attach to all other 53C8XX based controllers.
199.Pp
200When only the
201.Nm
202driver is configured, the
203.Ar SYM_SETUP_LP_PROBE_MAP
204option has no effect.
205Thus, in this case, the
206.Nm
207driver will attach all 53C8XX based controllers present in the system.
208.Pp
209This driver offers other options
210that are not currently exported to the user.
211They are defined and documented in the
212.Pa sym_conf.h
213driver file.
214Changing these options is not recommended unless absolutely necessary.
215Some of these
216options are planned to be exported through
217.Xr sysctl 3
218or an equivalent mechanism
219in a future driver releases and therefore,
220no compatibility is guaranteed.
221.Pp
222At initialization, the driver tries to detect and read user settings from
223controller NVRAM.
224The Symbios/Logic NVRAM layout and the Tekram NVRAM
225layout are currently supported.
226If the reading of the NVRAM succeeds, the
227following settings are taken into account and reported to CAM:
228.Bl -column "SCSI parity checking" "Symbios"
229.It Em "Host settings	Symbios	Tekram"
230.It "SCSI parity checking	Y	N"
231.It "Host SCSI ident 	Y	Y"
232.It "Verbose messages	Y	N"
233.It "Scan targets hi-lo	Y	N"
234.It "Avoid SCSI bus reset	Y	N"
235.El
236.Bl -column "Synchronous period" "Symbios"
237.It Em "Device settings	Symbios	Tekram"
238.It "Synchronous period	Y	Y"
239.It "SCSI bus width	Y	Y"
240.It "Queue tag enable	Y	Y"
241.It "Number of tags	NA	Y"
242.It "Disconnect enable	Y	Y"
243.It "Scan at boot time	Y	N"
244.It "Scan LUN	Y	N"
245.El
246.Pp
247Devices that are configured as disabled for 'scan' in the NVRAM are not
248reported to CAM at system start-up.
249They can be discovered later using
250the
251.Ql camcontrol rescan
252command.
253.Pp
254The table below summarizes the main features and capabilities of the
255NCR/Symbios/LSI Logic 53C8XX family of PCI SCSI controllers.
256.Bl -column sym53c1510d "80MHz" "Width" "SRAM" "PCI64"
257.It Em "Chip	Sync	Width	SRAM	PCI64	Supported"
258.It "sym53c810	10MHz	8Bit	N	N	Y"
259.It "sym53c810a	10MHz	8Bit	N	N	Y"
260.It "sym53c815	10MHz	8Bit	N	N	Y"
261.It "sym53c825	10MHz	16Bit	N	N	Y"
262.It "sym53c825a	10MHz	16Bit	4KB	N	Y"
263.It "sym53c860	20MHz	8Bit	N	N	Y"
264.It "sym53c875	20MHz	16Bit	4KB	N	Y"
265.It "sym53c876	20MHz	16Bit	4KB	N	Y"
266.It "sym53c885	20MHz	16Bit	4KB	N	Y"
267.It "sym53c895	40MHz	16Bit	4KB	N	Y"
268.It "sym53c895A	40MHz	16Bit	8KB	N	Y"
269.It "sym53c896	40MHz	16Bit	8KB	Y	Y"
270.It "sym53c897	40MHz	16Bit	8KB	Y	Y"
271.It "sym53c1510D	40MHz	16Bit	4KB	Y	Y"
272.It "sym53c1010	80MHz	16Bit	8KB	Y	Y"
273.El
274.Sh HARDWARE
275The
276.Nm
277driver provides support for the following Symbios/LSI Logic PCI SCSI
278controllers:
279.Pp
280.Bl -bullet -compact
281.It
282.Tn 53C810
283.It
284.Tn 53C810A
285.It
286.Tn 53C815
287.It
288.Tn 53C825
289.It
290.Tn 53C825A
291.It
292.Tn 53C860
293.It
294.Tn 53C875
295.It
296.Tn 53C876
297.It
298.Tn 53C895
299.It
300.Tn 53C895A
301.It
302.Tn 53C896
303.It
304.Tn 53C897
305.It
306.Tn 53C1000
307.It
308.Tn 53C1000R
309.It
310.Tn 53C1010-33
311.It
312.Tn 53C1010-66
313.It
314.Tn 53C1510D
315.El
316.Pp
317The SCSI controllers supported by
318.Nm
319can be either embedded on a motherboard, or on
320one of the following add-on boards:
321.Pp
322.Bl -bullet -compact
323.It
324ASUS SC-200, SC-896
325.It
326Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants)
327.It
328DawiControl DC2976UW
329.It
330Diamond FirePort (all)
331.It
332NCR cards (all)
333.It
334Symbios cards (all)
335.It
336Tekram DC390W, 390U, 390F, 390U2B, 390U2W, 390U3D, and 390U3W
337.It
338Tyan S1365
339.El
340.Sh MISC
341The DEC KZPCA-AA is a rebadged SYM8952U.
342.Sh SEE ALSO
343.Xr cd 4 ,
344.Xr da 4 ,
345.Xr ncr 4 ,
346.Xr sa 4 ,
347.Xr scsi 4 ,
348.Xr camcontrol 8
349.Sh HISTORY
350The
351.Nm
352driver appeared in
353.Fx 4.0 .
354.Sh AUTHORS
355.An -nosplit
356The
357.Nm
358driver was written by
359.An Gerard Roudier
360and is derived from the
361Linux sym53c8xx driver from the same author.
362The sym53c8xx driver is derived from the ncr53c8xx driver,
363which was ported from the
364.Fx
365.Xr ncr 4
366driver to Linux-1.2.13.
367The original
368.Xr ncr 4
369driver was written for
370.Bx 386
371and
372.Fx
373by
374.An Wolfgang Stanglmeier
375and
376.An Stefan Esser .
377.Sh BUGS
378No known bugs.
379