Re: New Marvell SATA driver for testing

On 2010-04-28 15:44:29 (+0300), Alexander Motin <mav_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> I'm glad to present new driver (mvs) for several series of Marvell SATA
> controllers (PCI-X, PCIe and SoC-integrated), to work with CAM ATA
> infrastructure.
> 
> Driver supports following Marvell chips:
...
>   88SX6042, 88SX7042 (including Adaptec 1430SA); 88F5182, 88F6281,
> MV78100 SoCs.
> , same as atamarvell + ataadaptec + atamvsata legacy ata(4) drivers
> together.
> 
...
> I've successfully tested it with Supermicro SAT2-MV8 (88SX6081) on i386
> and sparc64, Adaptec 1430SA (88SX7042) on i386, and SheevaPlug (88F6281)
> on arm. I haven't tested it on Gen-I chips due to lack of such hardware.
> 
> Complete fresh patch for HEAD can be found here:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/mvs.20100328.patch
> (make sure to run patch with -p to create directories).
> 
> Testing results, comments and feedback welcome.
> 
I've done a quick test on my Orion (88F5182) based device. It seems to
be working fine. It detects a SATA hard disk, reads/writes, ...
I wasn't able to mount a filesystem from the disk but that could have
been me.

Regards,
Kristof