Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 10:39:07 -0700 From: Dieter BSD <dieterbsd@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting documentation. ( Was [...] SATA Port Multiplier) Message-ID: <CAA3ZYrBKc2uzAhKcMdc9M%2BpOA2HkzPkS4=ZcJVBfEVchPdU%2BBw@mail.gmail.com>
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Willem writes: > Marvell is among the hardest to get the stuff from. One wonders how they expect to sell parts? > Perhaps this is somethings you could also do for this problem. Find a > coorperative PM board manufacturer, and bigback on their support with > the promise to "support" their PM boards in FreeBSD. > > Motivation for them would have to be that there could be a sales > advantage in selling PM boards to FreeBSDers. And given that we > advertise that ZFS does not need complex/expensive RAID controllers > will increase the usage of more simple devices. IIUC we have software RAID, thus we don't "need" complex/expensive RAID controllers regardless of fs. Don't the various BSDs mostly use the same drivers? Perhaps we could promise sales for Dragon/Open/Net as well as FreeBSD? > Otehr way about it would be to involve the FreeBSD foundation, and get > them to do the legal part of the stuff as a umbrella for the developers, > and then delegate (again under NDA) work to developers that want to work > on Marvell stuff. Sounds promising.
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