Re: ETA for Areca RAID driver (arcmsr) in mainline?

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:20:31PM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:

> I just got a shiny new (for me at least, the card has been out for
> months) Areca RAID card.
> 
> The driver (arcmsr) is in the -mm kernel, but hasn't yet made it to the
> mainline kernel. I'm curious what remains to be done before this can
> happen?


The top of the patch in -mm says:


(hch sez:

 There's lots of architectural problems.  It's doing it's own queueing, it's
 stuffing kernel structures into memory on the hardware and so on.  Basically
 someone knowledgeable about the hardware needs to start from scratch on it.

 Unfortunately it seems the hardware is more and more widely available so
 we'll have to bite that bullet one day.)


> Dax Kelson

cu
Adrian

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