2009/4/12 Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Alexander Beregalov wrote: >> >> 2009/4/9 Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx>: >>> >>> I reviewed and refreshed libata-dev.git#new-eh, now renamed to #sx4. >>> >>> Several bugs and missing pieces in the new-EH conversion were addressed >>> (often by copying highly similar code from sata_promise, a highly >>> similar chip) >>> >>> The only thing left is some "it still works" testing... any takers? >>> >> >> Hi Jeff >> >> I have SX4000 card, it is based on the same PDC20621 chip, but has PATA >> ports >> (without PATA-SATA bridges). >> Can I help? >> >> I am newbie here, but I will try to modify the driver to support PATA >> card as well >> and test your patch. > > It's unknown how well, or what is needed, to support the SX4000. You are > welcome to dive in and figure out what is needed, but you'd be asking > questions to which we wouldn't have answers. I found Promise provided docs for FreeBSD team. http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/performance/2003-07/0043.html >I do have the sx4000 in the works (thanks to Promise who has provided docs >and HW to make this happen).. Can we ask them too? :) Interesting, I cut off all unrelated lines from freebsd/ata/ata-chipset.c and it seems SX4/SX4000 driver is only about 700 lines long. -- 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
