Re:Hardware SAS Raid on the Raspberry Pi CM4
by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday February 28, 2021 @12:42AM
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Yeah, I partially wondered because NetBSD specifically has docs talking about ex. plugging "PC" cards into a "Mac" motherboard and being quite emphatic that it should always work because drivers were portable and orthogonal. Sad if Linux isn't doing as well:\
GNU/Linux obviously is amd64 centric. There's still a tremendous amount of dismissiveness towards anything that's not amd64 (we're even seeing it towards 32 bit x86). So if something doesn't work properly on a non-amd64 system, it's usually not considered a high priority.
The BSDs are much better about this. If something doesn't work, that means it's broken even if it works where 98% of people use it, so it gets fixed. I can, and have, plugged LSI and other RAID cards in to several different non-x86, non-amd64 systems and had them work exactly as expected.