freebsd-dev/share/man/man4/vmd.4
Doug Ambrisko f2521a76ed This driver attaches to the Intel VMD drive and connects a new PCI domain
starting at the max. domain, and then work down.  Then existing FreeBSD
drivers will attach.  Interrupt routing from the VMD MSI-X to the NVME
drive is not well known, so any interrupt is sent to all children that
register.

VROC used Intel meta data so graid(8) works with it. However, graid(8)
supports RAID 0,1,10 for read and write. I have some early code to
support writes with RAID 5.  Note that RAID 5 can have life issues
with SSDs since it can cause write amplification from updating the parity
data.

Hot plug support needs a change to skip the following check to work:
	if (pcib_request_feature(dev, PCI_FEATURE_HP) != 0) {
in sys/dev/pci/pci_pci.c.

Looked at by: imp, rpokala, bcr
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21383
2019-10-10 03:12:17 +00:00

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.Dd Octber 9, 2019
.Dt VMD 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm vmd
.Nd Intel Volume Management Device driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your
kernel configuration file:
.Bd -ragged -offset -indent
.Cd "device vmd"
.Cd "device vmd_bus"
.Ed
.Pp
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following
line in
.Xr loader.conf 5 :
.Bd -literal -offset indent
vmd_load="YES"
.Ed
.Pp
.Sh DESCRIPTION
This driver attaches to Intel VMD devices as a new PCI domain and then
triggers a probe of PCI devices.
Intel VMD is used with Intel's VROC (Virtual RAID on chip) used with
NVME drives on Skylake SP servers.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr graid 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Fx 13.0 .
.Sh BUGS
.Nm
is currently only available on amd64.