Broadcom ServerWorks HT-1000 support in OpenBSD

[Martin Nilsson]

Søren Schmidt 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'm running FreeBSD 6.1 on boards with HT1000 chipset, both ATA and SATA 
works as well under FreeBSD as it does under OpenBSD. Neither of them 
supports anything else than IDE mode for SATA.

> Hardware has arrived here and I'm working on support as time permits, 
> watch -current for the commit when I'm done...

Are you working on supporting the MMIO mode for SATA? (the one used by 
Linux - which does not support IDE mode!) There is also a really nice 
RAID mode (for a non HW-raid solution!) that depends on a binary blob 
from Broadcom available only for Linux/Windows.


/Martin