--- Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Robert Tarte wrote: > >> 1) SATA support. We at least need this stubbed out so seeing a SATA > >> device won't cause nasty things to happen (IBM is working on this). > >> Ideally, we need to integrate this driver with Brian King's SATA/SAS > >> code, but no-one who has this board has a sata device and vice versa. > > > > [Tarte, Robert] I'm not sure what Brian King's SATA/SA code is, but I do > > have boards that use the razor chip and I have SATA devices. > > The patch referred to here is a patch to libata that adds a set of APIs > that allows a SAS HBA to hook into libata to control SATA devices. It > was written so that I could get ipr to hook into libata, and the hope > is that it could be used by other SAS drivers as well. Unfortunately, > no other SAS drivers that support SATA passthrough have really tried > using it yet. Maybe this is because they have SATL a la proper. Luben > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=115279779219927&w=2 > > Brian > > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
