Re: Anyone working on the Marvell 88se64xx sas/sata chip driver?
John-Mark Gurney <[email protected]>
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Jia-Shiun Li wrote this message on Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 13:11 +0800: > for 6G SAS there is hpt27xx blob driver for Highpoint cards using > 88SE94xx. 12G SAS is 88SE1495, but there seems no products yet. In my exerience w/ the hpt27xx driver on 9.1-R, the card is terrible... Caused me no end of pain.. I replaced the card w/ an ahci native card (since I was hooking up SATA drivers), and now I'm happy... I couldn't get any support from Highpoint... Not really surprising considering the binary driver... > On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 5:07 AM, Alexander Motin <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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? -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not." _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"