Broadcom ServerWorks HT-1000 support in OpenBSD

Mike Jakubik mikej at rogers.com
Mon Apr 3 22:07:18 UTC 2006


Søren Schmidt wrote:
> Mike Jakubik wrote:
>> It seems like OpenBSD 3.9 has support for the HT-1000 IDE/SATA 
>> chipset, and we are still missing it. Is there any way to port their 
>> code over? There are a few nice motherboards out there that use this 
>> chipset (most amd server boards use the crappy nvidia chipset and the 
>> accompanying crappy network card).
>
> I've been promised a board with the serverworks chipset on it so I can 
> get support running, as you can probably figure out it hasn't 
> materialized yet, and no timeline as to when/if.
> The Openbsd code is of as much use as the Linux counterpart. I need HW 
> to test and maintain support, simple as that...

I see. If i could id contribute, but alas I'm unemployed now. Maybe 
freebsd should charge for CDs like openbsd does, to fund the cause :P



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