Tina Declerck tdeclerck@3ware.com writes:
Thank you. I'm not questioning the functionality of the driver, however, some customers like to configure 3ware RAID using the 3ware bios. If it is called during the system boot the driver isn't involved. This is not taking anything from existing functionality but trying to see if the functions currently available with other BIOSes is or will be available with the Linux BIOS.
Wrong assumption. The long term plan is to call the linux driver to boot off of cards. The linux kernel will be used in our bootloader. I am in the process of working out the size constraint issues.
The perception of a significant chunk of our customer base is that if you can't do it from linux you can't do it. So classic PC-BIOS firmware compatibility is simply a nice to have, and I don't see it extending beyond an optional feature.
Video cards have a special place in nuisance list. But what a video card requires from firmware is different from what a RAID card with a menu to configure things requires. And even the video card BIOS support will be optional.
Eric