Broadcom ServerWorks HT-1000 support in OpenBSD

[Søren Schmidt]

Martin Nilsson wrote:
> 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.

Yep, they are supported as GENERIC ATA devices.
>
>> 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.

I have proper PATA support done, and SATA MMIO mode is also working in a 
proof of concept mode here, the problem beeing lack lack of decent docs.
I'll look at the RAID stuff when I have the HW support licked, it should 
be an easy job adding support for it to ataraid.

-Søren