Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:50:14 -0700 From: ECEG / Daniel Duerr <dd@emeraldcityeg.com> To: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Cc: d@delphij.net Subject: Re: twa driver needs updating Message-ID: <0910B534-FAAC-42C2-9EB4-A77B6CA3B90D@emeraldcityeg.com> In-Reply-To: <47192969.20809@samsco.org> References: <85AFE2F9-33F6-40E8-B760-990970B7A791@emeraldcityeg.com> <4718EC36.7090401@delphij.net> <4E478C75-35D0-47EA-A4A3-05D06A167A51@emeraldcityeg.com> <47192969.20809@samsco.org>
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Hi Scott, Great perspective here, thanks for taking the time to respond. I agree with you and believe that some attention should be put on the hardware vendor driver side of things. It was *such* a pain to get to the point where I could even install Freebsd on these machines. And 3Ware RAID controllers are pretty standard IMHO. I've upgraded to RELENG_6 from RELENG_6_2 but I'm not at the data center and I cannot chance a reboot with the twa driver not working for me and the machine not coming back up. Cheers, Daniel On Oct 19, 2007, at 3:02 PM, Scott Long wrote: > ECEG / Daniel Duerr wrote: >> Thank you for redirecting my message. I've been keeping these >> machines updated on RELENG_6_2 because I have a couple pre- >> compiled hardware drivers I must use which I do not have kernel >> source for. I just did a csup/buildkernel last week on the latest >> p8 source tree and tested the included twa driver and it was not >> up to date. Would it be possible to get the twa driver pushed >> back into RELENG_6_2? > > There are plans to get the new device support pushed back to > RELENG_6 in > time for the 6.3 release. I know that's not the best answer for > you at > this moment. What is really, truly needed here is a "driver update > disk" setup for the installer that allows you to load vendor-supplied > drivers at install time and have those drivers integrated into the > installed system. Sysinstall has a clunky feature that kinda sorta > satisfies the first requirement, but completely falls down on the > second > requirement, making it completely useless. If anyone is serious about > sitting down and making such a feature happen, let me know. It > would be > an incredibly positive step towards better vendor support. I'd > like to > be involved because I've been in the vendor role in the past with > supporting linux, and I'd like to make sure that the linux mistakes > aren't repeated. > > Scott
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