From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 1 16:06:36 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1C9316A402 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:06:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from groot@kde.org) Received: from poster.science.ru.nl (poster.science.ru.nl [131.174.30.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82DC613C441 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:06:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from groot@kde.org) Received: from smeltpunt.science.ru.nl [131.174.16.145] (helo=smeltpunt.science.ru.nl) by poster.science.ru.nl (8.13.7/5.11) with ESMTP id l11FliIk015546 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:47:44 +0100 (MET) Received: from n142198.science.ru.nl [131.174.142.198] (helo=n142198.science.ru.nl) by smeltpunt.science.ru.nl (8.13.7/5.11) with ESMTP id l11FlgjF028342 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:47:42 +0100 (MET) From: Adriaan de Groot Organization: KDE e.V. To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:50:35 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702011650.35240.groot@kde.org> X-Spam-Score: -1.3 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_50 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 131.174.16.145 Subject: SiI3124 support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:06:37 -0000 Has there been any progress on the SiI 3124 / 3132 family of SATA controllers? The most recent post I could find was the same question as this, posted http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2006-August/003695.html . There are Linux (GPL) and Solaris drivers (unknown); the Linux status page at http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html#sii3124 suggests that documentation was even forthcoming from SiI (see bottom of http://linux-ata.org/devel.html ). The eSATA PCIe controllers (like http://www.addonics.com/products/host_controller/adsa3gpx1.asp) seem like useful additions for storage. So anyway, knowing full well that there's no FBSD driver yet I went out and bought a 3124-based PCI-X card, which I'm offering for use in testing or as a tester. If worse comes to worse, I will have to take a stab at porting the Linux driver -- it's not very big and for the purposes of having straightforward 4 ports it seems doable. So to return to the first question: any progress in this area? Has someone claimed this yet (S/oren comes to mind)? -- Adriaan de Groot KDE Quality Team http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/ SQO-OSS Researcher http://www.sqo-oss.eu/