Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 19th Mar 2005 05:03 UTC
With the recent push from OpenBSD to open firmwares to redistribution as well as obtaining new documentation for several wireless chipsets it would seem OpenBSD is pushing for other areas to open up as well.
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Quoted from Theo's reply: "We are working on a driver-independent raid management framework. One
command (perhaps called raidctl(4), we don't know) that should work on
any controller from any vendor, which would do management, because the
management stuff would be abstracted in a driver-independent way into
each driver. Yes this is a difficult project. We have support for
AMI almost working. We will support some other product, as well, then
we'll see where Adaptec stands."
Okay, now that's pretty freaking cool. A device independent management tool for managing RAID controllers. That would truely be a pretty usefull thing to have. No matter what controller you have, the interface would probably pretty much be the same. The idea of it is pretty awesome. I hope the OpenBSD suceeds in this endeavour.
I have some RAID hardware at work that I'd like to try it on. I just have to find out what RAID chips they use. We mostly have HP severs. I know some people hate Compaq/HP servers, but they've been very reliable for us. Almost as reliable as our AS/400 if that's ever possible because AS/400's don't break (ok, rarely break).
I guess we'll be waiting until the end of the year though.
Good luck OpenBSD!