Re: Promise TX4 + SiI 3726 : only one disk visible

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Jérôme VUARAND wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the quick answers. Sorry to have misread tejun's
> readme, I tought there was some abstraction layer between SATA
> protocol and SATAII extensions, so I didn't even suppose there could
> be a need for controller specific code to support port multiplier. I
> was clearly wrong.

Yeap, there is a layer, but it still needs low level support.

> So to be clear, there is not yet any support for my configuration
> (sata_promise+SiI3726) in any of your code branches ? If not which one
> should I start from to try to add the support myself (I never
> programmed anything in the kernel, so it would just be a newbie try) ?

No, not yet.  You can try but the biggest obstacle would be lack of 
document.  If you can access the doc, it shouldn't be too difficult, I 
guess.  You can analyze how sata_sil24 has been changed and update 
sata_promise similarly.

-- 
tejun