Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jul 2003 12:39:09 -0700 | From | Samuel Flory <> | Subject | Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd |
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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 <sflory@rackable.com>
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