From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 23 06:37:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFB4A106564A; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:37:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.vnode.se (mail.vnode.se [62.119.52.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AEEA8FC1B; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:37:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.vnode.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.vnode.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A47E3F085; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:36:59 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at vnode.se Received: from mail.vnode.se ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.vnode.se (mail.vnode.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id HyNbYv2ytjq8; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:36:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bubba.vnode.local (unknown [83.223.1.131]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.vnode.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 105CCE3F077; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:36:57 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:36:56 +0200 From: Joel Dahl To: Alexander Motin Message-ID: <20100423063655.GC84889@bubba.vnode.local> References: <4BD06BD9.6030401@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BD06BD9.6030401@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: FreeBSD-Current , freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switchover to CAM ATA? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:37:01 -0000 On 22-04-2010 18:31, Alexander Motin wrote: > Hi. > > With time passed, CAM-based ATA infrastructure IMHO looks enough mature > now to enable it in HEAD. Now we have two new stable drivers ahci(4) and > siis(4), covering major part of modern SATA HBAs, `options ATA_CAM` > wrapper for ata(4) to supports legacy hardware, and one more improved > driver for Marvell HBAs (mvs) is now in development and soon will be > present for testing. Together with many other people I have tested above > at least on i386, amd64, arm and spart64 architectures. If we want this in 9.0 we should probably switch to CAM ATA in HEAD now in order to allow enough testing before the release. -- Joel