Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 13:11:47 +0800 From: Jia-Shiun Li <jiashiun@gmail.com> To: Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" <FreeBSD-hardware@freebsd.org>, pechter@gmail.com Subject: Re: Anyone working on the Marvell 88se64xx sas/sata chip driver? Message-ID: <CAHNYxxM9vavw-6xVjgF4DFOHbkFUScd7cGkYEUJVz8yXOMshZw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <546E5802.8090904@FreeBSD.org> References: <CALwkMd3dR7zN9ZhdvBTjvkhSp8EbdaBCWcRFAoJ3HBhG6PtVbA@mail.gmail.com> <546E5802.8090904@FreeBSD.org>
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for 6G SAS there is hpt27xx blob driver for Highpoint cards using 88SE94xx. 12G SAS is 88SE1495, but there seems no products yet. -Jia-Shiun On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 5:07 AM, Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org> 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? > > -- > Alexander Motin > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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