From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 28 17:39:08 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A88E668 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2013 17:39:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dieterbsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-oa0-x244.google.com (mail-oa0-x244.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c02::244]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 291CA231E for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2013 17:39:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f68.google.com with SMTP id n12so1833173oag.3 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2013 10:39:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=PYEvk8iTbPx+UlTv8FJ/gghAIDL1yD0M7jwqSoBq9s0=; b=TgQYJrH7XIc467f3t5dRNw7dQ5ShqnPVKeYSkPnWKIq9rJdoEc3G4M3nxwo2NxHj7V wKUYx4XBsJSeI2BUv6v2IypQYKT7aceXEjIFxg4eC/LOmmZibZHBvT1PMP9y9vrYFBXe rrQn6cSRpG2RU388lgowdO1qP+/Rnlg3mAA1eiQGJHjIYvGiSEVCWthwS10s/1NxKM+G 0VnOcVei67FN9morZiFYSwGEgDMAY7ORajhw8omdp1rhiukradqRYjFMg3UsFR4fs5xu u8jFS+A05MiedACPxW9q09PscWOrxguH8Fd9zraPa/nPkmv32RY16OdMb5GNr7ndERjS fLvA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.50.210 with SMTP id e18mr544730igo.9.1375033147467; Sun, 28 Jul 2013 10:39:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.238.97 with HTTP; Sun, 28 Jul 2013 10:39:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 10:39:07 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Getting documentation. ( Was [...] SATA Port Multiplier) From: Dieter BSD To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 17:39:08 -0000 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.