RE: Supermicro P4SCT+ Marvell 88SX504 controller

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, EAZNet - Eddie Fry wrote:

> Hmmm, that sucks.  There are linux drivers.  I wonder if there is a way to
> get the specs from the linux developers.

I see a vendor driver and an "in progress" marker on the libata status
page. gjarzik appears to be the only "linux developer" who'd know anything
about the hardware.  The vendor driver says:

* THIS CODE CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION OF MARVELL.

which precludes us from reading it to get the necessary details.

> I'm going to put in a call to both
> Supermicro and Marvell and see if I can round up:
>
> Supermicro: a demo board
> Marvell: specs, references, and code samples
>
> Anything else you'll need to get this rolling?
>
> Eddie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Long [mailto:scottl_at_freebsd.org]
> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 4:41 PM
> To: EAZNet - Eddie Fry
> Cc: freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Supermicro P4SCT+ Marvell 88SX504 controller
>
> EAZNet - Eddie Fry wrote:
> > Soren/others,
> >
> >
> >
> > I’d like to offer to donate US$100 to getting the Marvell RAID controller
> > working quickly.  I’d rather see this driver implemented than to go buy
> > another controller.  I’d be more than happy to beta the driver.  I need to
> > do some testing/configuring on this box before deployment, so testing the
> > RAID driver would not be a problem.  However, I am on a timetable…
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> > Eddie Fry
> >
> > EAZNet Internet Services
> >
> >
>
> The problem is not with there being no desire to make this hardware
> work, it's that Marvell refuses to provide any specs, references, or
> code samples that could be used to write an open driver.
>
> Scott
>
>
>

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