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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2006-09-30 3:30 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2006-09-30 3:41 ` SATA status reports update Jeff Garzik
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2006-09-30 16:30 ` Robert Hancock
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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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