From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263050AbTH0DB5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:01:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263058AbTH0DB5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:01:57 -0400 Received: from mail.vtc.edu.hk ([202.75.80.229]:61488 "EHLO pandora.vtc.edu.hk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263050AbTH0DBz (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:01:55 -0400 Message-ID: <3F4C1F09.846A83EF@vtc.edu.hk> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:01:29 +0800 From: Nick Urbanik Organization: Institute of Vocational Education (Tsing Yi) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.20-20.9dbgpentax i686) X-Accept-Language: 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> <20030722205629.GA27179@gtf.org> <20030722213926.GA4295@codepoet.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at pandora.vtc.edu.hk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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... :) -- Nick Urbanik RHCE nicku(at)vtc.edu.hk Dept. of Information & Communications Technology Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Tsing Yi) Tel: (852) 2436 8576, (852) 2436 8713 Fax: (852) 2436 8526 PGP: 53 B6 6D 73 52 EE 1F EE EC F8 21 98 45 1C 23 7B ID: 7529555D GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24