From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Otto Meier Subject: Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4 Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:18:30 +0200 Message-ID: <42EF2C56.1040304@gmx.net> References: <42EDE918.9040807@gmx.net> <42EE3501.7010107@gentoo.org> <42EE3FB8.10008@gmx.net> <42EE4ADF.4080502@gentoo.org> <20050801201756.GQ22569@suse.de> <42EE866B.5030005@pobox.com> <20050801203540.GT22569@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20050801203540.GT22569@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jens Axboe Cc: Jeff Garzik , Daniel Drake , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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