Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751512AbWAaVec (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:34:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751519AbWAaVeb (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:34:31 -0500 Received: from smtp.uaf.edu ([137.229.34.30]:16396 "EHLO smtp.uaf.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751512AbWAaVea (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:34:30 -0500 From: Joshua Kugler Organization: UAF Center for Distance Education - IT To: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [OT] 8-port AHCI SATA Controller? Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:31:48 -0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 Cc: Sander , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com References: <20060131115343.GA2580@favonius> <200601311148.52955.joshua.kugler@uaf.edu> <20060131205954.GJ4215@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20060131205954.GJ4215@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601311231.48988.joshua.kugler@uaf.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1458 Lines: 40 On Tuesday 31 January 2006 11:59, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31 2006, Joshua Kugler wrote: > > On Tuesday 31 January 2006 11:38, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 31 2006, Sander wrote: > > > > > I got the drivers here: > > > > > > > > > > http://www.keffective.com/mvsata/FC3/ > > > > > > > > > > The latest was mvSata_Linux_3.6.1.tgz as of 2005-10-13. > > > > > > > > I very, very much prefer in-tree drivers :-) > > > > > > Actually there is a sata_mv driver in the kernel, however it's pretty > > > experimental right now. I'm sure it could use testers :-) > > > > Interesting. I understand it going through testing, but why didn't > > they pull in the mvSata driver referenced above? It was already GPL. > > Or did they pull in that driver and just want testing? > > Did you look at the driver? I'm guessing no :-) Yeah, sorry. I think I looked through some of the code, but not to the level of detail you mention. > Additionally, it didn't interface with libata at all. A native libata > driver is greatly preferred. Ah, that makes sense. j----- k----- -- Joshua Kugler PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ CDE System Administrator ID 0xDB26D7CE http://distance.uaf.edu/ - 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/