Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:11:24 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH, RFT, v2] sata_mv: convert to new EH |
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Andre Tomt wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Just got sata_mv working under the new EH, on my 6041. >> >> It probes and talks to disks just fine (chip doesn't support ATAPI), >> and hotplug actually has a chance of working. >> >> The 'mv-eh' branch of >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git >> mv-eh >> > > It's great to see this driver getting some more love. On a 6041 I'm > seeing very bad behaviour when encountering errors using the 2.6.19 > driver. If a disk gets the fits, the port dies and 500000 interrupts/s > gets fired until the server gets rebooted. Good thing it only pegs one > of four available cpu cores.. I hope the new EH is more robust in this > regard ;-)
So, does this patch work for you? :) It's against 2.6.21-rc1 IIRC.
> Ramblings aside; I see there is a mv-ncq head in libata-dev.git, do you > have it working? Is there a timeframe for NCQ support?
No and no. All this Marvell work is spare-time work for me, nobody's paying for it, so who knows. I'll have it working eventually, if someone else doesn't beat me to it.
Jeff
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