From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270993AbTGVT3g (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:29:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270992AbTGVT3g (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:29:36 -0400 Received: from 64-60-248-67.cust.telepacific.net ([64.60.248.67]:41511 "EHLO mx.rackable.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270184AbTGVT3a (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:29:30 -0400 Message-ID: <3F1D92DD.7040300@rackable.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 12:39:09 -0700 From: Samuel Flory User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: andersen@codepoet.org CC: Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd References: <20030722184532.GA2321@codepoet.org> <20030722185443.GB6004@gtf.org> <20030722190705.GA2500@codepoet.org> In-Reply-To: <20030722190705.GA2500@codepoet.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Jul 2003 19:44:32.0875 (UTC) FILETIME=[AC58D3B0:01C35089] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Erik Andersen wrote: >On Tue Jul 22, 2003 at 02:54:43PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > >>Bart, Alan, and I have been looking at this. It uses the ancient CAM >>model, that we don't really want to merge directly in the kernel. It's >>very close to the libata model, from the user perspective, so life is >>good. >> >> > >I was reading over your libata driver yesterday. Certainly a lot >cleaner than the cam stuff IMHO. Given the info made available >via the Promise driver, I expect that I could get an initial >libata host adaptor driver hacked together in short order. After >all, the Intel one is just 400 lines. So unless you (or anyone >else) have already started or would prefer to do the honors, >I'll try to hack something together this evening, > > > I'd be more than happy to test a driver. I'm sure I've got several pci cards plus a few intel 32, and amd-64 motherboards with promise sata on board. -- Once you have their hardware. Never give it back. (The First Rule of Hardware Acquisition) Sam Flory