From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [COORDINATE] INIC-1620TA/1622TA2/1623TA2 SATA controllers from initio
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:57:59 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <456F7E17.6050301@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ekn6pj$9dt$1@sea.gmane.org>
Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:24:50 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
>> I've just bought this brand-new/quite affordable INIC-1622TA2
>> controller. AFAIK, there's no driver yet.
>
> Any progress? I acquired two of those beasts today and *really* would like
> to get them up&running ASAP. :-/
>
> There seems to be a driver for Linux 2.4 at
> http://www.sunix.com.tw/it/en/down/driver/SATA/SATA2100/Linux%202.4.zip
> which might be helpful in writing a 2.6 driver.
Yeah, I saw that. The problem with the driver is that it doesn't
contain any license notice. I'm not sure if it would be okay to read
the driver and use the acquired info to implement GPL driver. I asked
sunix about it but got no useful answer.
>> http://initio.com/products/sata.htm
>
> The documentation on that page doesn't mention the 1622 any more, only the
> 1623. Does anybody still have the "old" data sheet?
>
> Which of the sata_*.c drivers would be a good sample code / starting point
> for writing a new driver?
For controllers which support NCQ, ahci and sata_sil24 are pretty good
examples.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-01 0:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-24 15:24 [COORDINATE] INIC-1620TA/1622TA2/1623TA2 SATA controllers from initio Tejun Heo
2006-01-24 16:27 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-01-24 16:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-01 22:29 ` Francois Romieu
2006-11-30 18:09 ` Matthias Urlichs
2006-12-01 0:57 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2006-12-01 12:13 ` Alan
2006-12-01 13:48 ` Alan
2006-12-01 14:01 ` Tejun Heo
2006-12-01 17:20 ` Matthias Urlichs
2006-12-12 4:33 ` Leigh
2006-12-12 12:03 ` Alan
2006-12-13 1:44 ` Tejun Heo
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