Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:44:59 -0700 From: "Vinod Kashyap" <vkashyap@amcc.com> To: Paul Saab <ps@mu.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RE: [freebsd-amd64] Possible 3ware 8506-12 SATA Controller issues... Message-ID: <HZRYR000.J7Y@hadar.amcc.com>
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> > Vinod Kashyap (vkashyap@amcc.com) wrote: > > Officially supporting a platform will need the driver to go through > > a thorough QA process, and therefore need QA resources (not > me). Also, > > there has to be this... ROI... :-) All in all, it's not my call! > > Then you wont complain when I make it work and commit the > changes because > we're a multi-platform environment and want the drivers to work on as > much of the hardware as possible. People are not asking for official > support of all the architectures, but they want to know that > the driver > will atleast work for them. 3ware just doesn't seem to understand the > project at all. > How do you make sure that it will at least work? By testing it, right? And you cannot do a half-a** testing since people can run into problems and you can be inundated with calls. So, thorough testing will need to be done, and it will take resources. A company will be ready to allocate resources only if there's ROI. That's reality! If you want to make it work on amd64, by all means, go ahead!home | help
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