Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263229AbTH0JAZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2003 05:00:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263244AbTH0JAZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2003 05:00:25 -0400 Received: from krusty.dt.e-technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE ([129.217.163.1]:35224 "EHLO mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263229AbTH0JAW (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2003 05:00:22 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:00:20 +0200 From: Matthias Andree To: linux-kernel Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd Message-ID: <20030827090020.GC9054@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel References: <20030722184532.GA2321@codepoet.org> <20030722185443.GB6004@gtf.org> <20030722190705.GA2500@codepoet.org> <20030722205629.GA27179@gtf.org> <20030722213926.GA4295@codepoet.org> <3F4C1F09.846A83EF@vtc.edu.hk> <3F4C2210.6050404@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F4C2210.6050404@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1063 Lines: 26 On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote: > For the future, I'm currently whipping the libata internals into shape > so that Promise may be supported. Promise hardware supports native > command queueing, a lot like many SCSI adapters. Is that true even for the older stuff such as a PDC20265? It appears that FreeBSD 4-STABLE blacklists some older (before-TX2) Promise chips because they apparently lock up when used with tagged command queueing. I haven't yet looked at the ATAng driver merged into FreeBSD 5-CURRENT. FreeBSD 4-STABLE blacklist code in function ad_tagsupported(): http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-disk.c?rev=1.60.2.24&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=RELENG_4 FreeBSD 5-CURRENT: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ata/ -- Matthias Andree - 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/