From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 23 19:58:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B14216A4CE for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 19:58:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-53484.0x50a6c9a6.abnxx9.customer.tele.dk [80.166.201.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF84643D39 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 19:58:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Received: from [194.192.25.143] (laptop.deepcore.dk [194.192.25.143]) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8NJwkIN006850; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:58:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Message-ID: <41532AEE.9060101@DeepCore.dk> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:58:38 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (X11/20040802) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Chadwick References: <200409212256.i8LMu1b7032629@sage.ts.co.nz> <41517193.60604@nulis.lt> <1521.66.11.183.178.1095880306.squirrel@66.11.183.178> <20040922220330.GA48125@parodius.com> <41527A9D.2080700@DeepCore.dk> <20040923194156.GA81108@parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <20040923194156.GA81108@parodius.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec ICH5R-S Serial ATA RAID X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 19:58:49 -0000 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Soren, >=20 > The metadata for ICH5R shouldn't be that hard -- it was added to Linux > fairly recently, by Intel (!). The source-code is open and available. >=20 > I believe I mentioned this in PR 60344. Applicable URLs: >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Di386/60344 > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0311.3/0222.html > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/ Right, but writing code without any means to test it is not on my=20 agenda, sorry. I have so many things that I do have the HW for that also = needs to be done, so I take my freedom to choose those (this is a=20 volounteer project you know). If anyone else wants to take on the task of writing/integrating/maintain = the above, please, by all means get on with it. But remember that the=20 maintainer part comes with it since I wont be able to... --=20 -S=F8ren