From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261891AbUCWCEc (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2004 21:04:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261919AbUCWCEc (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2004 21:04:32 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:21411 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261891AbUCWCE3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2004 21:04:29 -0500 Message-ID: <405F9B1F.4000403@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 21:04:15 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: andersen@codepoet.org CC: Joe Blow , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Promise 20378 + 2.6.0-test10 + libata patch 1 References: <3FCC014A.7050109@pobox.com> <20031202052015.GA28551@codepoet.org> In-Reply-To: <20031202052015.GA28551@codepoet.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Erik Andersen wrote: > On Mon Dec 01, 2003 at 10:04:42PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>Joe Blow wrote: >> >>>>From: Jeff Garzik >>>> >>>>Nope, libata Promise driver only supports Serial ATA. >>> >>> >>>Bummer. Will it ever support PATA? >> >>No plans. > > > What exactly is needed to get got SATA and PATA support > comparable to the driver provided by promise? Would it be > possible to adapt the existing promise PATA IDE driver to drive > the PATA port, while the libata Promise driver handles the SATA > ports. Or would a new driver be needed? > > How would the two drivers share the same PCI device? It looks like libata pretty much needs to do PATA, in this case and a couple others. Promise sent me a couple 2037x test cards with a PATA port on them, so just now need the time... :) Getting PATA disks working should be very, very easy. Getting ATAPI devices working requires some libata core hacking, though the ATAPI code is mostly there already. Jeff