Willem writes: > Marvell is among the hardest to get the stuff from. One wonders how they expect to sell parts?
> Perhaps this is somethings you could also do for this problem. Find a > coorperative PM board manufacturer, and bigback on their support with > the promise to "support" their PM boards in FreeBSD. > > Motivation for them would have to be that there could be a sales > advantage in selling PM boards to FreeBSDers. And given that we > advertise that ZFS does not need complex/expensive RAID controllers > will increase the usage of more simple devices. IIUC we have software RAID, thus we don't "need" complex/expensive RAID controllers regardless of fs. Don't the various BSDs mostly use the same drivers? Perhaps we could promise sales for Dragon/Open/Net as well as FreeBSD? > Otehr way about it would be to involve the FreeBSD foundation, and get > them to do the legal part of the stuff as a umbrella for the developers, > and then delegate (again under NDA) work to developers that want to work > on Marvell stuff. Sounds promising. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
