[OmniOS-discuss] Marvell 88SE9128 AHCI/SATA3 driver support added

[Alex Wilson]

Just an addendum, by "merged in" I meant merged into illumos-gate -- I merged them with illumos-omnios myself last week (including the SATA3 patch) and built from that.


On 03/07/2013, at 1:56 PM, Alex Wilson <alex at cooperi.net> wrote:

> On the unsure if you should connect anything front -- I have a kernel I built just after those changes were merged in, with omnios-bloody, and it's running quite well so far. Mine's got 4 disks on it that are part of a 6-disk raidz2 vdev and it's been storing, ahem, non-critical bit torrent data (it's all Linux ISOs, obviously). It's been reading and writing at a few MB/sec for most of the week since then without any problems.
> 
> That said, none of the disks attached have had any problems as yet -- handling errors is usually where newly supported controllers explode worst. So ymmv, naturally.
> 
> On a semi-related note, I'm also using the newly added support for the ASMedia ASM106x chips on a couple of machines (all with mSATA SSDs attached, serving as mirrored ZIL/l2arc on quite busy but non-critical hosts) and it's also fine, just not the fastest thing ever (as expected from the price). Most of the changes for both these chips have just been relaxing the ahci code's expectations about the level of standards-compliance of the things it talks to, and some minor modifications for the newer revisions of AHCI. They're probably about as safe as brand new things get.
> 
> 
> On 02/07/2013, at 11:57 PM, Eric Sproul <esproul at omniti.com> wrote:
> 
>> Robin,
>> These changes will likely remain in bloody and become part of r151008.
>> The changeset for 3797 is in illumos-omnios and there should be
>> packages for bloody coming soon that include this code.  The one for
>> 3815 doesn't look like it's been merged yet into illumos-omnios.
>> 
>> Eric
>> 
>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Robin Smidsrød <robin at smidsrod.no> wrote:
>>> Any chance of these changes to illumos-gate required for supporting
>>> Marvell 88SE9128 will end up in current stable, or are they expected in
>>> the next stable release?
>>> 
>>> https://www.illumos.org/issues/993
>>> https://www.illumos.org/issues/3797
>>> https://www.illumos.org/issues/3815
>>> 
>>> It doesn't seem like the bug history clearly states if this controller
>>> is expected to work reliably or not from now on. Could someone clarify?
>>> 
>>> Unsure if I should dare to connect anything to that controller or not
>>> (once the fixes become part of stable).
>>> 
>>> -- Robin
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