Messages in this thread | | | Subject | AW: Promise SATA vendor drivers uploaded | Date | Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:04:31 +0100 | From | "Martin Bene" <> |
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> To further assist anyone wishing to hack on sata_promise.c, I just > uploaded the long-since-GPL'd vendor drivers for Generation-I and > Generation-II chipsets to > http://gkernel.sourceforge.net/specs/promise/ > > This should help with isolating the proper initialization > sequence for a given set of chips, particularly. > > If someone knows of updated versions of these GPL'd drivers, > please let me know.
The uploaded versions seem to be version 1.00.0.15 for kernel 2.4 only.
The newest version (for sataII TX4/300, TX4/150 and friends) I find on the promise website is 1.01.0.20 for the 2.6 kernel series; not much newer though, the files are timestamped 2005-07-05.
Also: I'm not quite sure about the license: while the top level files are GPL, the stuff in cam/ subdirectory seems to have a differenc license:
* Copyright (c) 2002 Promise Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. * No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or * by any means, electronic or mechanical, for any purpose, without the * express written permission of Promise Technology, Inc.
Same license appears in the archives you uploaded to sourceforge btw.
I had been using the promise drivers for quite some time on 2.6.13 because I needed the hotplug functionality - didn't work reliably though, used to crash the kernel with about 25% probability when connecting new drives.
Finaly gave up a few days ago, got a SiI 3114 based controller and upgraded to 2.6.18 which has the new eh and hotplug for that chipset.
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