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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Prakash Punnoor <prakash@punnoor.de>
Subject: Re: SATA status reports update
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:30:07 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <451DE4BF.70906@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.BuZY3hsao85GkcEIgE6/7ZlG40A@ifi.uio.no>

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Prakash Punnoor wrote:
>> Well, how would one debug it w/o hw docs? Or is it possible to compare 
>> the patch with a working driver for another chipset?
> 
> Well, it is based off of the standard ADMA[1] specification, albeit with 
> modifications.  There is pdc_adma.c, which is also based off ADMA.  And 
> the author (from NVIDIA) claims that the driver worked at one time, so 
> maybe it is simply bit rot that broke the driver.
> 
> If I knew the answer, it would be fixed, so the best answer 
> unfortunately is "who knows".
> 
> I wish I had the time.  But I also wish I had a team of programmers 
> working on libata, too ;-)

Do you know exactly what is allegedly broken in that version? I see that 
there are some functions which are just "TODO"..

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Robert Hancock      Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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       reply	other threads:[~2006-09-30  3:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]       ` <fa.BuZY3hsao85GkcEIgE6/7ZlG40A@ifi.uio.no>
2006-09-30  3:30         ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2006-09-30  3:41           ` SATA status reports update Jeff Garzik
     [not found]         ` <fa.l8JQ0qnQYteeWfINfpS73yv1OKw@ifi.uio.no>
2006-09-30 16:30           ` Robert Hancock
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     [not found] ` <fa.g2Kx9MbD4ZVWpxAjjpedYrf09zM@ifi.uio.no>
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     [not found]     ` <fa.YmprXb8sC090DghGSt7gnlhfo2c@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]       ` <fa.IewnjLanGhRn8aKEjkVZcxkolss@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]         ` <fa.mQXoq13o43zcI4XRFyX1EjaYxI4@ifi.uio.no>
2006-09-30 22:09           ` Robert Hancock
2006-10-01  0:16             ` Tejun Heo
2006-10-01  0:03           ` Robert Hancock
2006-09-29  9:35 Jeff Garzik
2006-09-29  9:49 ` Prakash Punnoor
2006-09-29  9:53   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-29 10:00     ` Prakash Punnoor
2006-09-29 10:03       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-30  7:26         ` Prakash Punnoor
2006-09-29 17:51 ` John Stoffel
2006-09-29 18:24   ` Alan Cox
2006-09-29 18:20     ` John Stoffel
2006-10-03  3:02 ` Shem Multinymous

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