SiI 3124 FreeBSD Driver

This project aims to develop a SiI 3124 driver for FreeBSD. There are of course already Linux an Solaris drivers for this device, plus available documentation. There's no FreeBSD driver, though, so let's make one.

Credits

I had a first version of a 3124 driver sort-of working; it could read and write blocks. I then sent one controller card to Søren Schmidt who maintains FreeBSD's ata(4) driver and he did one that's much better in style. I did an MFC to get it to work on 6-stable again and have since worked on port multiplied support in 6-stable; I'm not sure what's going on in 7-current.

Sources

Get the driver from CodeYard's SiI24 SVN; there are three brances that are interesting:

• ata-stable-orig/ - This is used to track the regular 6-stable tree from CVS; if you fetch this it should be identical to your /usr/src/sys/dev/ata.
• ata/ - This is used to track the 7-current changes from CVS; it is not updated very often, but should match what your 7-current box has in /usr/src/sys/dev/ata.
• ata-stable/ - this is the really interesting one. Copy the contents over top of /usr/src/sys/dev/ata and recompile the kernel to get SiI3124 and SiI3132 support, hotplug and some PM.