Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: How are the Promise drivers doing? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:38:13 +0100 |
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On Mer, 2003-09-24 at 02:27, Andi Kleen wrote: > One big problem with the Promise drivers is that they are not 64bit > clean. Trying them in a 64bit x86-64 kernel fails quickly. > Fixing them is unfortunately a lot of work because of the weird > Windows like programming style in the CAM layer in there. > > Also at least some released versions of them had gapping security holes > in the ioctl handlers.
Looking at the BSD drivers you may well be able to do a minimal mmio version of the 2026x driver for the chips as a stopgap. That wouldn't be as good as the full libata thing once it is done but it would make it go
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