From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 13 12:47:56 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 7CBE316A41F for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:47:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.org) 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 D8E9043D45 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:47:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.org) Received: from [194.192.25.136] (mac.deepcore.dk [194.192.25.136]) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j9DCk94O061919; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:46:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.org) In-Reply-To: <434E4EBC.5040505@gneto.com> References: <434E005B.70408@gneto.com> <434E0511.7000704@samsco.org> <434E4EBC.5040505@gneto.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <0402F00C-F5ED-4423-9574-B49C2F009E5A@freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:47:52 +0200 To: Martin Nilsson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) X-mail-scanned: by DeepCore Virus & Spam killer v1.12 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA Support (Marvell chip) 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: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:47:56 -0000 On 13/10/2005, at 14:10, Martin Nilsson wrote: > Scott Long wrote: > >> Martin Nilsson wrote: >> >>> The chip on the adapter is called AIC-8130 and is also marked =20 >>> Marvell 88SX6541-BCZ, the adaptec Linux driver is called aar81xx. >>> > > > > Getting specs out of Marvell is impossible; > > it's been tried many times for their previous SATA > > and network chips, and the result is almost always nothing but =20 > frustration. > > I was under the impression that S=F8ren had at least some kind of =20 > documentation for the previous generation of Marvell SATA chips. I do, but I havn't worked on it for quite some time due to other =20 things getting higher priority. Also the marvell chips are sufficiently different from the rest of =20 the world that they are not an easy fit into the system, but thats =20 been solved long ago. I hope to get back to this soon together with a few other chipsets =20 that I've collected during the last months.. S=F8ren Schmidt sos@FreeBSD.org