Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263041AbUD2DRb (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:17:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263059AbUD2DR2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:17:28 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:35810 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263041AbUD2DRS (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:17:18 -0400 Message-ID: <409073B1.1020901@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:17:05 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andre Tomt CC: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [sata] new driver -- AHCI References: <408C1F41.3060206@pobox.com> <40905997.9020107@tomt.net> In-Reply-To: <40905997.9020107@tomt.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1077 Lines: 35 Andre Tomt wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> So kudos to the AHCI folks (mainly at Intel), for making a decent, >> open controller. I always prefer to work on drivers for decent >> hardware, whose hardware specification is open and public. > > > Quick questions: > > Is the Intel 6300ESB ("Hence Rapids") AHCI based? So far this looks like > ICH6 too me, but I may be mistaken. The only Hance Rapids stuff I've seen was ICH5-R, but maybe it's carried forward to the ICH6-R as well. I don't know, I mainly know the underlying chipsets not the boards they wind up being shipped on... > What about the Marvell 88SX5040 PCI-X SATA Controller? Coming RSN. That's my next priority, but I'm not as thrilled because Marvell isn't an open design like AHCI. I'm much more happy to promote AHCI's sane, open design. 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/