Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422893AbWKPKEf (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 05:04:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422875AbWKPKEf (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 05:04:35 -0500 Received: from relay.icomedias.com ([62.99.232.66]:27403 "EHLO relay.icomedias.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422868AbWKPKEe convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 05:04:34 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: AW: Promise SATA vendor drivers uploaded Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:04:31 +0100 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <455B7D7E.2030400@garzik.org> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Promise SATA vendor drivers uploaded Thread-Index: AccI+Agkuva/YMIdSSaVCHbVBT/uOwAamSLA From: "Martin Bene" To: Cc: "Linux Kernel" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1799 Lines: 43 > To further assist anyone wishing to hack on sata_promise.c, I just > uploaded the long-since-GPL'd vendor drivers for Generation-I and > Generation-II chipsets to > http://gkernel.sourceforge.net/specs/promise/ > > This should help with isolating the proper initialization > sequence for a given set of chips, particularly. > > If someone knows of updated versions of these GPL'd drivers, > please let me know. The uploaded versions seem to be version 1.00.0.15 for kernel 2.4 only. The newest version (for sataII TX4/300, TX4/150 and friends) I find on the promise website is 1.01.0.20 for the 2.6 kernel series; not much newer though, the files are timestamped 2005-07-05. Also: I'm not quite sure about the license: while the top level files are GPL, the stuff in cam/ subdirectory seems to have a differenc license: * Copyright (c) 2002 Promise Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. * No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or * by any means, electronic or mechanical, for any purpose, without the * express written permission of Promise Technology, Inc. Same license appears in the archives you uploaded to sourceforge btw. I had been using the promise drivers for quite some time on 2.6.13 because I needed the hotplug functionality - didn't work reliably though, used to crash the kernel with about 25% probability when connecting new drives. Finaly gave up a few days ago, got a SiI 3114 based controller and upgraded to 2.6.18 which has the new eh and hotplug for that chipset. Bye, Martin - 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/