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SubjectRe: How are the Promise drivers doing?
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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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