From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andre Tomt <andre@tomt.net>
Subject: Re: [SATA] libata-dev queue updated
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 17:58:38 +0100
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Patch URL, BK URL, and changelog attached.
> 
> Recent changes:
> * New sata_qstor driver.
> 
> * Turn on ATAPI by default.
> 
> * Change a couple unconditional use-the-hardware function calls to be 
> callbacks instead.  Should have been this way originally.
> 
> * Most of C/H/S support.
> 
> * Fix bugs in ADMA driver.
> 
> * Support PCI MSI in AHCI driver.
> * Support ATAPI in AHCI driver.
> 
> * Improve ATA passthru (a.k.a. SMART) support
> 

How is the Marvell driver coming along? Did it stall? :-)

The propetiary source driver works, but its not like its universally 
available (I had to grab it from a different vendor..), "guaranteed" to 
work with future kernels, have a usable license, and so on.