From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 21 09:08:23 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 9F0ED1EF; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 09:08:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from h2.funkthat.com (gate2.funkthat.com [208.87.223.18]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "funkthat.com", Issuer "funkthat.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F3E9DFFE; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 09:08:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from h2.funkthat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by h2.funkthat.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id sAL98MsP006100 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 21 Nov 2014 01:08:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmg@h2.funkthat.com) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by h2.funkthat.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id sAL98M8D006099; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 01:08:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmg) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 01:08:22 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Jia-Shiun Li Subject: Re: Anyone working on the Marvell 88se64xx sas/sata chip driver? Message-ID: <20141121090822.GH99957@funkthat.com> Mail-Followup-To: John-Mark Gurney , Jia-Shiun Li , Alexander Motin , freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" , pechter@gmail.com References: <546E5802.8090904@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 54BA 873B 6515 3F10 9E88 9322 9CB1 8F74 6D3F A396 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ X-Resume: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/resume.html X-TipJar: bitcoin:13Qmb6AeTgQecazTWph4XasEsP7nGRbAPE X-to-the-FBI-CIA-and-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? can i haz chizburger? X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (h2.funkthat.com [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 21 Nov 2014 01:08:22 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, Alexander Motin , pechter@gmail.com, "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" 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 09:08:23 -0000 Jia-Shiun Li wrote this message on Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 13:11 +0800: > for 6G SAS there is hpt27xx blob driver for Highpoint cards using > 88SE94xx. 12G SAS is 88SE1495, but there seems no products yet. In my exerience w/ the hpt27xx driver on 9.1-R, the card is terrible... Caused me no end of pain.. I replaced the card w/ an ahci native card (since I was hooking up SATA drivers), and now I'm happy... I couldn't get any support from Highpoint... Not really surprising considering the binary driver... > 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? -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."