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On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 15:37, merwan kashouty wrote: > i was just wondering if there was any further progress on a possible > native kernel driver for the promise 20376 sata chip... i have it > running now but with the proprietary driver from promise's website.... > but it seems to work well, > > Timing buffer-cache reads: 1692 MB in 2.00 seconds = 846.00 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 232 MB in 3.01 seconds = 77.08 MB/sec > > much better then the reported silicon image tests i have seen.... i > hope someone is still talking to promise about releasing the full source > to get this into the kernel or working to reverse engineer a driver... > all the information i have found searching lkml seems to be atleast a > couple of months old. Search again :) jgarzik's libata supports the promise SATA chips. The support is a little preliminary still, but it seems to work ok for many. libata is already merged in 2.6.0-test, and is available as a patch for 2.4 on ftp.kernel.org. Jeff has also said on the list that promise is cooperating on this open source driver. - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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