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+SMARTPQI - Microsemi Smart PQI Driver
+-----------------------------------------
+
+This file describes the smartpqi SCSI driver for Microsemi
+(http://www.microsemi.com) PQI controllers. The smartpqi driver
+is the next generation SCSI driver for Microsemi Corp. The smartpqi
+driver is the first SCSI driver to implement the PQI queuing model.
+
+The smartpqi driver will replace the aacraid driver for Adaptec Series 9
+controllers. Customers running an older kernel (Pre-4.9) using an Adaptec
+Series 9 controller will have to configure the smartpqi driver or their
+volumes will not be added to the OS.
+
+For Microsemi smartpqi controller support, enable the smartpqi driver
+when configuring the kernel.
+
+For more information on the PQI Queuing Interface, please see:
+http://www.t10.org/drafts.htm
+http://www.t10.org/members/w_pqi2.htm
+
+Supported devices:
+------------------
+<Controller names to be added as they become publically available.>
+
+smartpqi specific entries in /sys
+-----------------------------
+
+ smartpqi host attributes:
+ -------------------------
+ /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/rescan
+ /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/version
+
+ The host rescan attribute is a write only attribute. Writing to this
+ attribute will trigger the driver to scan for new, changed, or removed
+ devices and notify the SCSI mid-layer of any changes detected.
+
+ The version attribute is read-only and will return the driver version
+ and the controller firmware version.
+ For example:
+ driver: 0.9.13-370
+ firmware: 0.01-522
+
+ smartpqi sas device attributes
+ ------------------------------
+ HBA devices are added to the SAS transport layer. These attributes are
+ automatically added by the SAS transport layer.
+
+ /sys/class/sas_device/end_device-X:X/sas_address
+ /sys/class/sas_device/end_device-X:X/enclosure_identifier
+ /sys/class/sas_device/end_device-X:X/scsi_target_id
+
+smartpqi specific ioctls:
+-------------------------
+
+ For compatibility with applications written for the cciss protocol.
+
+ CCISS_DEREGDISK
+ CCISS_REGNEWDISK
+ CCISS_REGNEWD
+
+ The above three ioctls all do exactly the same thing, which is to cause the driver
+ to rescan for new devices. This does exactly the same thing as writing to the
+ smartpqi specific host "rescan" attribute.
+
+ CCISS_GETPCIINFO
+
+ Returns PCI domain, bus, device and function and "board ID" (PCI subsystem ID).
+
+ CCISS_GETDRIVVER
+
+ Returns driver version in three bytes encoded as:
+ (DRIVER_MAJOR << 28) | (DRIVER_MINOR << 24) | (DRIVER_RELEASE << 16) | DRIVER_REVISION;
+
+ CCISS_PASSTHRU
+
+ Allows "BMIC" and "CISS" commands to be passed through to the Smart Storage Array.
+ These are used extensively by the SSA Array Configuration Utility, SNMP storage
+ agents, etc.
+