From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 14 18:05:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AA1116A4CE for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:05:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08CBF43D39 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:05:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j0EI5ath025205; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:05:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j0EI5Y5P025204; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:05:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:05:34 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Eirik ?verby Message-ID: <20050114180534.GA12260@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <41E31103.1040003@anduin.net> <20050114002254.GC29445@dragon.nuxi.com> <41E7D834.7080505@anduin.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41E7D834.7080505@anduin.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: asr on amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:05:39 -0000 On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 03:33:24PM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 12:34:27AM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote: > >>Daring as I am, here's another attempt at having someone look into the > >>asr driver and why it doesn't work on amd64. > >>I have such a Zero-Channel RAID card laying around collecting dust, > >>whereas it was planned installed in a server here long time ago. > >> > >>I know Scott Long looked into it long ago, and he seems to have been the > >>last one to touch the driver. He indicated a few months ago that he had > >>little time; perhaps things look brighter now that 5.3 is out? > >> > >>I'll cross-post to -current/-stable in a few days if I don't hear > >>anything.. > > > >NO need to cross post. Unless you see a statement otherwise -- nothing > >has changed. eBay a *real* RAID controller. ;-)) > > Sorry. Already done.. And for the record, this *is* a "real" RAID > controller; .. > It's a Ultra320 SCSI RAID controller card, used by many Tyan high-end > Opteron motherboards. Zero-channel RAID controllers perform below a full-fledged RAID controllers. > it's a real pity noone cares about upgrading the driver. Its not a "don't care" issue -- if you investigated the driver you'd realize how difficult it is. It wasn't until just reciently that Linux managed to support these RAID cards in the 64-bit kernel. That's over 2 years since the first AMD64 Linux was released (much less beta's etc...) -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)