HighPoint RocketRAID 1820 Driver
Magnus Carlebjork
magnus at carlebjork.se
Tue Aug 31 14:19:23 PDT 2004
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Søren Schmidt wrote:
> Magnus Carlebjörk wrote:
>> Hi. Are there any plans to import the source code for the highpoint 1820?
>>
>> http://www.highpoint-tech.com/BIOS%20%2B%20Driver/rr1820/FreeBSD/rr182x-bsd-openbuild-v101.tgz
>>
>> Quoting from the readme.txt in the driver source:
>>
>> "THERE ARE NO RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE OF THIS FREE SOURCE CODE"
>>
>> Wouldn't it be nice to have a native driver?
>
> Well it would be if it had source code with it. All the interesting bits are
> in a binary .o file.
Ah, I see, they do a 'cp -f raid.obj raid.o'. Interesting ;)
> That said, I'm close to finishing support for the Marvell chip used in that
> controller as part of the ATA driver, so native support will happen when I
> get time to get it finished and out the door :)
Thank you for replying, I look forward to trying the driver once it is finished!
Regards,
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Magnus Carlebjork MCA14-RIPE
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