Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:30:07 -0600 | | From | Robert Hancock <> | | Subject | Re: SATA status reports update |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: > Prakash Punnoor wrote: >> Well, how would one debug it w/o hw docs? Or is it possible to compare >> the patch with a working driver for another chipset? > > Well, it is based off of the standard ADMA[1] specification, albeit with > modifications. There is pdc_adma.c, which is also based off ADMA. And > the author (from NVIDIA) claims that the driver worked at one time, so > maybe it is simply bit rot that broke the driver. > > If I knew the answer, it would be fixed, so the best answer > unfortunately is "who knows". > > I wish I had the time. But I also wish I had a team of programmers > working on libata, too ;-)
Do you know exactly what is allegedly broken in that version? I see that there are some functions which are just "TODO"..
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