From: Nick Urbanik <nicku@vtc.edu.hk>
To: andersen@codepoet.org
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:01:29 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F4C1F09.846A83EF@vtc.edu.hk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030722213926.GA4295@codepoet.org
Dear Erik and Jeff,
Did you make any progress here or were you discouraged by the resulting
flamewar?
Does this work in 2.4.x? I have a Tyan Trinity i875P S5101 which I want to
use the parallel IDE ports on. They are connected to a PDC20378. Any
patches that you think would be reliable? Or should I take the opportunity
to return this to the vendor and buy an Intel S845WD1-E instead?
Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Tue Jul 22, 2003 at 04:56:29PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > 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,
> >
> > Shoot, that would be great ;-)
>
> K, I'll give it a try.
>
> > On a legal note, I would prefer that completely new drivers (i.e. no
> > copied code from other sources) be licensing in the same way as
> > libata.c. Maintainer's preference in the end, of course, but I would
> > like to strongly encourage following libata.c's example ;-)
>
> By that I assume you mean osl-1.1 like libata.c, rather than GPL
> like ata_piix.c.... I expect I may be copying bits and pieces
> from the Promise driver though. Certainly I'd like to use as
> much of their header files as seems practical. So it may very
> well need to stay GPL'd. But I'll see what I can do.
>
> > I have a TX2 board, too, so I can test your stuff as well.
>
> Cool. I have a TX2 as well. Hope I don't fry it... :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-27 3:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-22 18:45 Promise SATA driver GPL'd Erik Andersen
2003-07-22 18:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-22 19:07 ` Erik Andersen
2003-07-22 19:39 ` Samuel Flory
2003-07-22 20:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-22 21:39 ` Erik Andersen
2003-07-22 23:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-27 3:01 ` Nick Urbanik [this message]
2003-08-27 3:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-27 9:00 ` Matthias Andree
2003-08-27 11:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-22 20:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-23 13:20 ` Mark Watts
2003-07-23 1:59 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 2:38 ` Shawn
2003-07-23 10:32 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 18:58 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-24 11:22 ` Matthias Andree
2003-08-13 13:34 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-13 14:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-15 10:17 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-25 3:44 ` Milan Roubal
2003-07-23 5:12 Adam J. Richter
2003-07-23 5:28 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 9:08 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-23 10:12 ` Matthias Andree
2003-07-23 10:21 ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-07-23 11:47 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 11:54 ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-07-23 10:37 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-23 10:29 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 10:51 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-23 11:43 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 12:17 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-23 12:32 ` Martin Diehl
2003-07-23 12:57 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 19:08 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 19:19 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 19:33 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 19:46 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 20:59 ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 22:22 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 22:40 ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 22:35 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 23:02 ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 23:08 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 23:33 ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 23:45 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-24 0:14 ` dacin
2003-07-24 0:23 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-24 0:21 ` David Schwartz
2003-07-24 0:21 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-24 13:23 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-07-24 14:01 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-24 18:37 ` David Schwartz
2003-07-23 22:32 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 22:46 ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-23 23:13 ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 10:40 ` Adam Sampson
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