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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 12:39:09 -0700
From: Samuel Flory <sflory@rackable.com>
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Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd
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Erik Andersen wrote:

>On Tue Jul 22, 2003 at 02:54:43PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>  
>
>>Bart, Alan, and I have been looking at this.  It uses the ancient CAM
>>model, that we don't really want to merge directly in the kernel.  It's
>>very close to the libata model, from the user perspective, so life is 
>>good.
>>    
>>
>
>I was reading over your libata driver yesterday.  Certainly a lot
>cleaner than the cam stuff IMHO.  Given the info made available
>via the Promise driver, I expect that I could get an initial
>libata host adaptor driver hacked together in short order.  After
>all, the Intel one is just 400 lines.  So unless you (or anyone
>else) have already started or would prefer to do the honors,
>I'll try to hack something together this evening,
>
>  
>

  I'd be more than happy to test a driver.  I'm sure I've got several 
pci cards plus a few intel 32, and amd-64 motherboards with promise sata 
on board.


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Sam Flory  <sflory@rackable.com>


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