Update the man page a bit- also to reflect that testing

that Jun Kuriyama did to verify the PCI-Express (Apple
Fibre Channel) HBA.

MFC after:	3 days
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Matt Jacob 2007-04-07 04:01:00 +00:00
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.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd June 5, 2006
.Dd April 6, 2007
.Dt MPT 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -104,10 +104,14 @@ LSI Logic 7202XP-LC
LSI Logic FC949X
(Dual 4Gb/s
.Tn Fibre Channel )
.It
LSI Logic FC949ES
(Dual 4Gb/s
.Tn Fibre Channel PCI-Express)
.El
.Pp
The
.Tn SCSI
.Tn Ultra 320 SCSI
controller chips supported by the
.Nm
driver can be found onboard on many systems including:
@ -127,7 +131,17 @@ The
controller chips are also present on many new AMD/Opteron based systems,
like the Sun 4100.
Note that this controller can drive both SAS and SATA
drives or a mix of them at the same time.
drives or a mix of them at the same time. The Integrated Raid Mirroring
available for these controllers is poorly supported at best.
.Pp
The
.Tn Fibre Channel
controller chipset are supported by a broad variety of speeds and systems.
The
.Tn Apple
Fibre Channel HBA is in fact the
.Tn FC949ES
card.
.Pp
This driver also supports target mode for Fibre Channel cards.
This support may be enabled by setting the desired role of the core via
@ -158,12 +172,12 @@ driver was originally written for
.Fx
by
.An Greg Ansley
and substantially improved upon
and marginally improved upon
by
.An Matt Jacob Aq mjacob@FreeBSD.org
and
.An Justin Gibbs Aq gibbs@FreeBSD.org .
.Sh BUGS
This driver has been reported to have problems under the VMware ESX server.
.An Matt Jacob Aq mjacob@FreeBSD.org .
.Pp
This driver does not yet work on big endian machines like Sparc64.
.An Justin Gibbs Aq gibbs@FreeBSD.org
and
.An Scott Long Aq scottl@FreeBSD.org
have made more substantial improvements.
.Sh BUGS