When will Linux support new RAID controllers

[Dennis Mungai]

Eventually, a driver will roll out. The question is when.



On 7 December 2017 at 17:16, Alan Cox <gnomes at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 18:01:10 -0800
> "David F." <df7729 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Any word if the patch is available?
>>
>> Is this going mainline anytime soon?
>
> I am not aware of anyone in Intel working on it or planning to work on it
> at this point. Nothing stops someone outside of Intel doing that from the
> code that was released.
>
> For things that need BIOS changes whatever the vendor my experience has
> always been that you make the most impact by talking to the actual system
> vendor (who controls the BIOS), including telling them why you didn't buy
> their machine. At the end of the day businesses make decisions based on
> dollars.
>
> Alan