Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:09:13 -0600 (CST) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Driver support for Marvell 88SE6320 SAS Controller Message-ID: <201201230209.q0N29Dkr072491@mail.r-bonomi.com> In-Reply-To: <000001ccd913$c56f6640$504e32c0$@gmail.com>
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"Warwick Davison" <wcdavison@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi There,
>
>
> I have been reading up on SAS controller support in FreeBSD and I see that
> there is no support for the Marvell 88SE6320 SAS controller as found on the
> ASUS P6T Deluxe and WS series motherboards. I have seen that there are quite
> a few people enquiring about the driver for this chipset.
>
> What can be done to include the drive in one of the FreeBSD releases to
> come.
>
There are generally four possible reasons why a driver for particular
hardware is not present:
1) the tehnical information to write the driver is not available from the
manufacturer.
2) the current driver developers do not have a sample of the hardware
to test against.
3) the current driver developers do not have the _time_ to do the work.
remember, this is a volunteer effort.
4) no one with the time, and resources, to do it is interested in doing so.
Items 1 and 2 account for a -lot- of 'missing' device drivers.
Which of the above can _you_ help with? <grin>
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