Broadcom ServerWorks HT-1000 support in OpenBSD

Søren Schmidt sos at FreeBSD.org
Fri May 26 02:01:36 PDT 2006


b-tuck at gmx.net wrote:
>> Mike Jakubik wrote:
>>     
>>> 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...
>>>>         
>> The hardware to support this stuff should go out this week to Søren
>>
>> hi
>>     

>> i just wanted to know if the driver is already ported to freebsd.
>> if not how long does it approximately take?
>>     
Hardware has arrived here and I'm working on support as time permits, 
watch -current for the commit when I'm done...

-Søren



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