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Subject: Re: [sata] ALI M5281
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Shine on this Life That's Burnin' Out" <hopeless@islug.org>
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On Maw, 2004-09-21 at 10:51, Shine on this Life That's Burnin' Out
wrote:
> Even some sort of semi-functional code would be nice. (Reminds me of 
> my attempts to forward-port old korean package for Aralion UltimaRAID 
> systems. Works in later 2.4's but dies on 2.6 =( )

A lot of badly written code (or just old code that didnt know
about the PCI mapping API) does that

> Was ALI good about specs for their old M15x3 series?

Reasonably so, at least when approached by a Linux vendor. I have some
ALi data sheets under NDA for example. I don't know how they view random
individual requests. 

Alan