From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: sata_mv 7042 support and port multipliers Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:10:20 -0500 Message-ID: <4550BDFC.1050408@rtr.ca> References: <20061106043114.GO15897@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> <454ED4A0.2090408@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:42246 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964990AbWKGRKW (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 12:10:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <454ED4A0.2090408@pobox.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: "Robin H. Johnson" , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > Robin H. Johnson wrote: .. >> The card reports as revision 2, which is not in the code either. >> >> I've got the hardware, so I'm willing to do heavy lifting of code (NCQ, >> Hotplug, PMP) if it hasn't been done yet, if somebody point me to some >> docs on the matter. I've seen the mvSata-3.6.1 driver, and it appears >> to have most of the stuff on revision 1, but nothing on hardware >> revision 2 either. >> >> Jeff: you mentioned back in September about Marvell being a bit more >> generous with docs? Were 7042 docs amongst them or do I have to slog >> through the messy mvSata driver to find everything? > > That's what I had to do. I have the docs, which cover the programming > interface, but it doesn't cover a lot of the associated errata. I had > to dig that out of the mvSata driver myself. > > I had thought that Mark Lord was working on improving sata_mv, but > outside of a locking bugfixes, I haven't seen anything since mid-May. I no longer use a system with that chipset (6081), so if someone new (Robin?) wants to take up the cause, then go for it! Cheers