From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 21 05:12:18 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C7506E7; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:12:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-x22d.google.com (mail-ie0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22d]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8F31F5F6; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:12:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f173.google.com with SMTP id y20so4249011ier.18 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 21:12:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=2DW0rOaFWXEysqAM9J4dpCZ0hbRK6nxf/cw7Iy4bu94=; b=tHT4lfv9g2/zms3vVBt/VhYdLmGZVXGQcWYCldGRibZOn8qv/VFj2TiFLAgGcEP62o xxVMA1tA8cM9da5o/SBVD0vUCE1wzRMQ4+R00pMJj3LDIK+rSrZvAme6Unbu/T48A1yR o/0rMKUAlFrJRbVpjdXbjZmnvnCWGmC0m1vsRavmqJ2KO2llgXzLOqrBLUmSQTB1tCV1 Xpo8z/T1XyNl2EeywmD0XbjS8hVztBvqIN+LssziUvGzTy541EOP1KJEDlRWrnzlZKj+ Ht6SpA6LYaZp/RI4T1q8VS5I/pV9HGdtkZqHvhd1B1ZForF3KCLOOLwOpHCBZGAmrJXo c/Aw== X-Received: by 10.50.93.6 with SMTP id cq6mr13455998igb.7.1416546738026; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 21:12:18 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.107.175.83 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 21:11:47 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <546E5802.8090904@FreeBSD.org> References: <546E5802.8090904@FreeBSD.org> From: Jia-Shiun Li Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 13:11:47 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Anyone working on the Marvell 88se64xx sas/sata chip driver? To: Alexander Motin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" , pechter@gmail.com X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:12:18 -0000 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 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"