Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4

[Otto Meier <gf435@gmx.net>]

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>   
>> Jens Axboe wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, Aug 01 2005, Daniel Drake wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Otto Meier wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> My question is also are these features (NCQ/TCQ) and the heigher 
>>>>> datarate be supported by this
>>>>> modification? or is only the basic feature set of sata 150 TX4 supported?
>>>>>           
>>>> NCQ support is under development. Search the archives for Jens Axboe's 
>>>> recent patches to support this. I don't know about TCQ.
>>>>         
>>> It's done for ahci, because we have documentation. I have no intention
>>> on working on NCQ for chipset where full documentation is not available.
>>> But the bulk of the code is the libata core support, adding NCQ support
>>> to a sata_* driver should now be fairly trivial (with docs).
>>>       
>> I have docs for the Promise NCQ stuff.  Once NCQ is fully fleshed out (I 
>> haven't wrapped my brain around it in a couple weeks), it shouldn't be 
>> difficult to add NCQ support to sata_promise.
>>     
>
> Excellent!
>
>   
Sounds great. If you have implemented NCQ  for sata_promise it would be 
nice if you
could forward me the patch, because i'm not  subscribed to the ML's

best regards
Otto Meier