Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754003AbZDMCYK (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:24:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753363AbZDMCXy (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:23:54 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f165.google.com ([209.85.219.165]:61779 "EHLO mail-ew0-f165.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752923AbZDMCXx convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:23:53 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=uvY64ttERJHIJZs0iFP+RCUd1k4kP907a+dNjRM9UulLowTMWkkOQ0R+FlmT5BXHIJ jUBZ6JFa1VEx79EusMtRrtTa7kObJkr9/C8WQS3d889hMxwQvQHwbf3ip4rKW6R0cT70 7PkIPl78G/3eyXO3KG9j/3ZBO2+cA5LVP/IGA= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <49E1CE26.9050401@garzik.org> References: <20090408200511.GA24071@havoc.gtf.org> <49E1CE26.9050401@garzik.org> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:23:50 +0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] sata_sx4: refresh and convert to new EH From: Alexander Beregalov To: Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, LKML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1544 Lines: 42 2009/4/12 Jeff Garzik : > Alexander Beregalov wrote: >> >> 2009/4/9 Jeff Garzik : >>> >>> I reviewed and refreshed libata-dev.git#new-eh, now renamed to #sx4. >>> >>> Several bugs and missing pieces in the new-EH conversion were addressed >>> (often by copying highly similar code from sata_promise, a highly >>> similar chip) >>> >>> The only thing left is some "it still works" testing...  any takers? >>> >> >> Hi Jeff >> >> I have SX4000 card, it is based on the same PDC20621 chip, but has PATA >> ports >> (without PATA-SATA bridges). >> Can I help? >> >> I am newbie here, but I will try to modify the driver to support PATA >> card as well >> and test your patch. > > It's unknown how well, or what is needed, to support the SX4000.  You are > welcome to dive in and figure out what is needed, but you'd be asking > questions to which we wouldn't have answers. I found Promise provided docs for FreeBSD team. http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/performance/2003-07/0043.html >I do have the sx4000 in the works (thanks to Promise who has provided docs >and HW to make this happen).. Can we ask them too? :) Interesting, I cut off all unrelated lines from freebsd/ata/ata-chipset.c and it seems SX4/SX4000 driver is only about 700 lines long. -- 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/