> 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. Bye, Martin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
