twa driver needs updating

[ECEG / Daniel Duerr]

Hi Scott,

Great perspective here, thanks for taking the time to respond.  I  
agree with you and believe that some attention should be put on the  
hardware vendor driver side of things.  It was *such* a pain to get  
to the point where I could even install Freebsd on these machines.   
And 3Ware RAID controllers are pretty standard IMHO.

I've upgraded to RELENG_6 from RELENG_6_2 but I'm not at the data  
center and I cannot chance a reboot with the twa driver not working  
for me and the machine not coming back up.

Cheers,
Daniel

On Oct 19, 2007, at 3:02 PM, Scott Long wrote:

> ECEG / Daniel Duerr wrote:
>> Thank you for redirecting my message.  I've been keeping these  
>> machines updated on RELENG_6_2 because I have a couple pre- 
>> compiled hardware drivers I must use which I do not have kernel  
>> source for.  I just did a csup/buildkernel last week on the latest  
>> p8 source tree and tested the included twa driver and it was not  
>> up to date.  Would it be possible to get the twa driver pushed  
>> back into  RELENG_6_2?
>
> There are plans to get the new device support pushed back to  
> RELENG_6 in
> time for the 6.3 release.  I know that's not the best answer for  
> you at
> this moment.  What is really, truly needed here is a "driver update
> disk" setup for the installer that allows you to load vendor-supplied
> drivers at install time and have those drivers integrated into the
> installed system.  Sysinstall has a clunky feature that kinda sorta
> satisfies the first requirement, but completely falls down on the  
> second
> requirement, making it completely useless.  If anyone is serious about
> sitting down and making such a feature happen, let me know.  It  
> would be
> an incredibly positive step towards better vendor support.  I'd  
> like to
> be involved because I've been in the vendor role in the past with
> supporting linux, and I'd like to make sure that the linux mistakes
> aren't repeated.
>
> Scott