On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/19/2010 02:12 AM, Jayaraman Thiruvady wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to make vdisk ( file disk ) to emulate as a SATA
>> drive. To do so, i thought of making a SATA port to target mode and
>> cross wire it with another SATA port ( initiator) and by mapping the
>> SATA target mode port with vdisk, the SATA initiator must detect the
>> vdisk as some SATA device to perform further. Is such scenario doable?
>>
>> Is the place where i can find more details on how much scenario is
>> achievable and the details Marvell SATA support as target mode in
>> kernel-tree and its info supported chipsets?.
>
> Unfortunately, nobody's really worked on it, as far as I know.
>
> It would be great to see SATA target support, though.
>
> Jeff
Jayaraman,
I've implemented the target mode for the marvell sata controllers
(supported by sata_mv.c), but that wasn't based on the libata driver,
it was done on marvell's in house driver (GPL), please let me know if
you need reference code and information about the HW.
saeed
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