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From: Leon Woestenberg <leonw@mailcan.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Marvell SATA for libata?
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 08:14:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <409F1DB6.7050306@mailcan.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <409EEE42.6070201@pobox.com>

Hello Jeff,

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Leon Woestenberg wrote:
>> Hello all, Jeff Garzik in particular,
>>
>> we have interest in having the Marvell 88sx5040 SATA controller work
>> under libata.
>>
>> Did you happen to start development for this controller, as your
>> latest libata status report seems to tell so?
>>
>> We have the Marvell datasheet available (but under NDA) as well as
>> the source code from SuperMicro and we would like to convert it to
>> the libata framework.
> 
> 
> In fact, I am working on it right now.
>
Excellent. Applying as test-bed candidate. :-)

> I also have the docs and the driver (albeit officially :)).
> 
I happen to find it at this public customer support FTP server: 
ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/driver/SATA/DAC_SATA-MV8/

which is officially for the MV8 PCI card, which has the forementioned
chip on its PCB.

> A non-queueing driver for Marvell will be fairly straightforward. Adding 
> queueing will be much more of a chore, though.
> 
That makes me wonder, what is the typical performance gain when using
any of the command queueing methods?

Regards,

Leon.

      reply	other threads:[~2004-05-10  6:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-09  1:08 Marvell SATA for libata? Leon Woestenberg
2004-05-10  2:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-10  6:14   ` Leon Woestenberg [this message]

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