From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 23 18:45:55 2004 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 EC6DF16A4CE; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:45:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hadar.amcc.com (hadar.amcc.com [192.195.69.168]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C3C643D2F; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:45:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vkashyap@amcc.com) Received: from mailhost.amcc.com ([192.195.69.30]) by hadar.amcc.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id HZRYR000.J7Y; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:45:00 -0700 Received: (from vkashyap-pc [10.66.6.61]) by mailhost.amcc.com (SMSSMTP 4.0.0.59) with SMTP id M2004062311450405148 ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:45:04 -0700 From: "Vinod Kashyap" To: Paul Saab Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:44:59 -0700 X-Sent-Folder-Path: Sent Items X-Mailer: Oracle Connector for Outlook 9.0.4 51114 (9.0.6627) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org cc: mike cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RE: [freebsd-amd64] Possible 3ware 8506-12 SATA Controller issues... X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:45:56 -0000 > = > 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!