[freebsd-amd64] Possible 3ware 8506-12 SATA Controller issues...

[Vinod Kashyap]

> 
> Vinod Kashyap (vkashyap at amcc.com) wrote:
> > Officially supporting a platform will need the driver to go through
> > a thorough QA process, and therefore need QA resources (not 
> me).  Also,
> > there has to be this... ROI... :-)  All in all, it's not my call!
> 
> Then you wont complain when I make it work and commit the 
> changes because
> we're a multi-platform environment and want the drivers to work on as
> much of the hardware as possible.  People are not asking for official
> support of all the architectures, but they want to know that 
> the driver
> will atleast work for them.  3ware just doesn't seem to understand the
> project at all.
> 

How do you make sure that it will at least work?  By testing it, right?
And you cannot do a half-a** testing since people can run into problems
and you can be inundated with calls.  So, thorough testing will need to
be done, and it will take resources.  A company will be ready to allocate
resources only if there's ROI.  That's reality!

If you want to make it work on amd64, by all means, go ahead!