From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Drake Subject: Promise TX4200 support? Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:01:50 +0100 Message-ID: <42DBFC9E.1040607@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.49]:23875 "EHLO mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261483AbVGRS7o (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2005 14:59:44 -0400 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: jgarzik@pobox.com, martin.povolny@solnet.cz Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I recieved an email from someone claiming to be stuck with Linux 2.4, due to relying on a Promise TX4200 disk controller (using the fdsata driver from promise's website, which is 2.4-only): 0000:01:09.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown device 3519 (rev 02) Subsystem: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown device 3519 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9 I/O ports at dc00 [size=128] I/O ports at d800 [size=256] Memory at ff8ff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Memory at ff8c0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Expansion ROM at ff8e0000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 What is the status of this on 2.6? I found a blank changeset (??) in the mail below, from 24th May: Jeff Garzik wrote: > Please pull the 'new-ids' branch from > > rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git > > This add new PCI ids to some SATA drivers. > commit 37c15447c565ab458ee3778e198d08f4041caa99 > tree 2eda289903e3bf19eebce7d5f9aaed2240a02479 > parent 9422e59ddf6cae68e46d7a2c3afe1ce4e739d3eb > author Martin Povolny Mon, 16 May 2005 02:41:00 -0400 > committer Jeff Garzik Mon, 16 May 2005 02:41:00 -0400 > > [PATCH] sata_promise: new PCI ID for TX4200 > > [note - blank changeset] > Was this accidently removed, or is the sata_promise driver actually incompatible with this hardware? Thanks, Daniel