Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S275118AbTHMOYj (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:24:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S275092AbTHMOYj (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:24:39 -0400 Received: from host-64-213-145-173.atlantasolutions.com ([64.213.145.173]:49851 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S275118AbTHMOYh (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:24:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:24:36 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik To: Vojtech Pavlik Cc: Alan Cox , Andre Hedrick , Erik Andersen , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd Message-ID: <20030813142436.GA3588@gtf.org> References: <1058956331.5520.13.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030813133437.GA27182@ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030813133437.GA27182@ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1337 Lines: 33 On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:34:37PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:32:11AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 02:59, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > I have already cut all ties with Promise so here is the deal. > > > I no longer have to count the number of fingers on my hand between hand > > > shakes. IE no extras and not shortages. > > > > Thats ok - now they are doing GPL drivers themselves they don't need > > you any more. > > > > Promise did a SCSI CAM driver because their hardware can queue commands > > without TCQ - which drivers/ide can't cope with. Otherwise I'd just have > > used the same type of changes the FreeBSD people did for 2037x. > > > > Its also interesting because it has a hardware XOR engine. > > I don't think it does. The Promise SATA150 SX4 is the one that has the > XOR engine (and the PDC20621 chip) and that one is not supported by the > driver. hmm, the method of delivering ATA and XOR packets on Promise hardware are very, very similar. And pdc-ultra driver seems to have code to deliver XOR packets... Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/