Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 13:42:45 +0200
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
       Alexandre.Bounine@tundra.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
       Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
       Yang Xin-Xin-r48390 <Xin-Xin.Yang@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/2.6.17-rc4 10/10]  bugs fix for marvell SATA on powerp c pl atform
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On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 07:41:24AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
> >I'm trying to use a Marvell 88SX5081 based card here in my pegasos machine,
> >and i never got it working with the libata driver, even with the patches 
> >Zang
> >provided (and 2.6.16 though, maybe i should update to a newer version). The
> >marvell provided driver worked though at some time.
> >
> >Would it be possible to have access to your work, in order to not duplicate
> >effort or something ? 
> 
> All of the relevant bits of "my work" are now in Jeff's upstream libata 
> tree,
> from the recently posted sata_mv patches.

Ok. can i use this tree with a 2.6.16 base ?
 
> After struggling with bad SDRAM earlier this week, I now have Ubuntu 
> installed
> and running reliably on my G3 box here.  Next step is to upgrade the kernel
> to something modern, and add in the latest sata_mv.

Ok.
 
> After that, I'll try my own 6081 Marvell card in it, and hopefully see the 
> same failures as you.. hopefully!

I tried getting a 6081 based low profile card, but they don't seem to sell in
europe.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

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