Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267745AbUJLUir (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:38:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267759AbUJLUir (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:38:47 -0400 Received: from darkwing.uoregon.edu ([128.223.142.13]:19329 "EHLO darkwing.uoregon.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267745AbUJLUin (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:38:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:38:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Joel Jaeggli X-X-Sender: joelja@twin.uoregon.edu To: Andy Warner cc: Jeff Garzik , Tom Dickson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Who is working on the Marvell SATA Chipset? In-Reply-To: <20041012152404.A14245@florence.linkmargin.com> Message-ID: References: <416C2BD6.10802@inostor.com> <416C3378.6000001@pobox.com> <20041012152404.A14245@florence.linkmargin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1401 Lines: 38 On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Andy Warner wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Tom Dickson wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> Who is in charge of the "in progress" driver for the Marvell 88SX5040? >> >> I have a skeleton driver locally, need to get on to finishing it. > > Marvell also have drivers for 2.4 and 2.6, but they are under NDA > etc etc, and ignore libata (they also pre-date libata), so if > you have hardware that you _must_ get working; they might be > a useful stopgap. > > I'll repeat my eagerness to test anything for the 88SX50xx or 88SX60xx, > regardless of how primitive it is. My benchmarking with the Marvell > driver shows the throughput to be excellent. I would love to be buying the 8 port pci-x marvells for nas boxes where we're doing JBOD or software raid. http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/DAC-SATA-MV8.cfm which is running around $110 at this point. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2 - 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/