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DateTue, 02 Aug 2005 10:18:30 +0200
FromOtto Meier <>
SubjectRe: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4
Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>> Jens Axboe wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, Aug 01 2005, Daniel Drake wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>>> Otto Meier wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>>> My question is also are these features (NCQ/TCQ) and the heigher 
>>>>> datarate be supported by this
>>>>> modification? or is only the basic feature set of sata 150 TX4 supported?
>>>>> 
>>>> NCQ support is under development. Search the archives for Jens Axboe's 
>>>> recent patches to support this. I don't know about TCQ.
>>>> 
>>> It's done for ahci, because we have documentation. I have no intention
>>> on working on NCQ for chipset where full documentation is not available.
>>> But the bulk of the code is the libata core support, adding NCQ support
>>> to a sata_* driver should now be fairly trivial (with docs).
>>> 
>> I have docs for the Promise NCQ stuff.  Once NCQ is fully fleshed out (I 
>> haven't wrapped my brain around it in a couple weeks), it shouldn't be 
>> difficult to add NCQ support to sata_promise.
>> 
>
> Excellent!
>
> 
Sounds great. If you have implemented NCQ  for sata_promise it would be 
nice if you
could forward me the patch, because i'm not  subscribed to the ML's

best regards
Otto Meier
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