Anyone working on the Marvell 88se64xx sas/sata chip driver?

[Jia-Shiun Li]

for 6G SAS there is hpt27xx blob driver for Highpoint cards using
88SE94xx. 12G SAS is 88SE1495, but there seems no products yet.

-Jia-Shiun

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 5:07 AM, Alexander Motin <mav at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 15.11.2014 21:08, Bill Pechter wrote:
>> I've got a really nice Lenovo D20 that I need to share between
>> FreeBSD/Linux and Windows Server 2012 for some testing.
>>
>> I've got the Marvell driver up on Linux and Windows but it appears that I
>> have to move the SATA drives to the Intel SATA chips if I want to share
>> between FreeBSD/Linux/Windows.
>>
>> I hate to have to rebuild this all... Is there a test driver for the
>> 88se63xx/64xx drivers available in 10.1 or -stable?
>
> I'm afraid there is no such one. That family of controllers is neither
> mvs(4) nor ahci(4). It is completely separate design, providing quite
> low-level interface to SAS ports (that means that support for wide
> ports, expanders, target mapping, etc. should be done manually inside
> the driver). I had a wish to implement it at some point, but had no
> documentation. Now I have some documentation and even some (old now)
> hardware, but not sure how much widespread/applicable are those chips
> now. Complains like that happen not so often and I am not sure I want to
> spend few months of work on discontinued hardware. Has Marvell released
> anything new from that line, like 12Gbps SAS, that could be interesting?
>
> --
> Alexander Motin
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