Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750740AbWI3Dlg (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:41:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750743AbWI3Dlg (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:41:36 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:7113 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750740AbWI3Dlf (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:41:35 -0400 Message-ID: <451DE76C.5090504@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:41:32 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060913) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Hancock CC: linux-kernel , Prakash Punnoor Subject: Re: SATA status reports update References: <451DE4BF.70906@shaw.ca> In-Reply-To: <451DE4BF.70906@shaw.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.3 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1125 Lines: 31 Robert Hancock wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Prakash Punnoor wrote: >>> Well, how would one debug it w/o hw docs? Or is it possible to >>> compare the patch with a working driver for another chipset? >> >> Well, it is based off of the standard ADMA[1] specification, albeit >> with modifications. There is pdc_adma.c, which is also based off >> ADMA. And the author (from NVIDIA) claims that the driver worked at >> one time, so maybe it is simply bit rot that broke the driver. >> >> If I knew the answer, it would be fixed, so the best answer >> unfortunately is "who knows". >> >> I wish I had the time. But I also wish I had a team of programmers >> working on libata, too ;-) > > Do you know exactly what is allegedly broken in that version? I see that > there are some functions which are just "TODO".. I just know it was a working driver at one time. 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/