Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751489AbWEDPU1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 May 2006 11:20:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751501AbWEDPU0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 May 2006 11:20:26 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:21478 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751489AbWEDPU0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 May 2006 11:20:26 -0400 Subject: RE: Generic SATA driver which works with Marvell SATA From: Alan Cox To: Yogesh Pahilwan Cc: "'Erik Mouw'" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 16:31:48 +0100 Message-Id: <1146756708.22308.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-4.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 802 Lines: 17 On Iau, 2006-05-04 at 19:33 +0530, Yogesh Pahilwan wrote: > I believe there must be some low level driver for the SATA devices (eg: > mv_sata for Marvel SATA) which allows sd_mod to expose them as a scsi > devices? sata_mv drives the marvell chipsets, you want 2.6.16/17-rc for this. There is no such thing as a "generic" SATA driver as all SATA chipsets have their own interfaces, unlike PATA where there was a basic standard. A standard is emerging (called AHCI) and in time it may be that all SATA uses the same driver just as we have few USB drivers. - 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/