Re: Anyone working on the Marvell 88se64xx sas/sata chip driver?
Alexander Motin <[email protected]>
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On 15.11.2014 21:08, Bill Pechter wrote: > I've got a really nice Lenovo D20 that I need to share between > FreeBSD/Linux and Windows Server 2012 for some testing. > > I've got the Marvell driver up on Linux and Windows but it appears that I > have to move the SATA drives to the Intel SATA chips if I want to share > between FreeBSD/Linux/Windows. > > I hate to have to rebuild this all... Is there a test driver for the > 88se63xx/64xx drivers available in 10.1 or -stable? I'm afraid there is no such one. That family of controllers is neither mvs(4) nor ahci(4). It is completely separate design, providing quite low-level interface to SAS ports (that means that support for wide ports, expanders, target mapping, etc. should be done manually inside the driver). I had a wish to implement it at some point, but had no documentation. Now I have some documentation and even some (old now) hardware, but not sure how much widespread/applicable are those chips now. Complains like that happen not so often and I am not sure I want to spend few months of work on discontinued hardware. Has Marvell released anything new from that line, like 12Gbps SAS, that could be interesting? -- Alexander Motin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"