Mark Lord wrote: > I don't know anything about the 88SE6145 (isn't that an AHCI clone?), > but the 7042 chip under Linux is *now* a very safe (and good) bet. > > It has full kernel support for hot-plug, PMP with FIS-based switching, > and employs a decent host command queue mechansim. I believe all of the > errata workarounds are now in place for this chip. > > Performance is about as good as it gets under Linux, > though there's still another microsecond or so to be shaved > away from the IRQ handling in the next cycle. > > Message-Switched-Interrupts (MSI) is there, but not fully supported yet. > This also will likely get cleaned up in the next cycle. > > The 7042 is the best of the Marvell chips, for Linux. How high does it go bandwidth-wise? Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
