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DateWed, 12 May 2004 07:27:03 +0200
FromZoltan Boszormenyi <>
SubjectRe: Serial ATA (SATA) on Linux status report
Jeff Garzik írta:
> Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
>> Could it be that Region 1 of the Promise controller contains
>> the PATA I/O ports? Then it could be driven with a drivers/ide
>> driver... Maybe common locking is needed between sata_promise.c
>> and a driver for it's PATA side, I don't know.
> 
> 
> Nope, the PATA ports are stuck in the same place as the SATA ports...
> 
>     Jeff

Then the solution could be be that drivers/ide/ide.c generic
functions must be bridged/duplicated (short term) or moved (long term)
to libata. And maybe in 2.7 drivers/ide ll drivers are rewritten
(again) to use it from there.

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi

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