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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: "Morrison, Tom" <tmorrison@empirix.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 26/30] Support for Marvell 7042 Chip
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:10:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45ED682A.9040408@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BD261180E6D35F4D9D32F3E44FD3D901053E84BD@EMPBEDEX.empirix.com>

Morrison, Tom wrote:
> I have tested with generic 2.6.20.2 on on x86 (XEON)
> platform and a similiar (but not exactly same) 2.6.20.x 
> (git tree from Freescale) for my target CPU: MPC8548E
> 
> Its exactly the same SATA chip - the only difference
> between 7042 & 6042 is the PCI bridge interface.
> 
> In the case of 6042 - its a PCI to PCI Bridge
> In the case of 7042 - its a PCI to PCI Express Bridge
> 
> I do not believe there is any other difference - except
> the physical bus interface.
> 
> I should have 'said' this in the patch request...

Check the Marvell GPL driver and errata for the chip.  Grep for 'isPEX' 
to see all the PCI-Express-specific code and workarounds.  sata_mv does 
not have a lot of those, which was the reason why I only added the 6042 
PCI ID to the driver.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-06 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-06 10:38 [patch 26/30] Support for Marvell 7042 Chip akpm
2007-03-06 12:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-03-06 12:42   ` Morrison, Tom
2007-03-06 13:10     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-10-31 15:41       ` Other Problems with Marvell Driver - 7042 (2.6.23) Morrison, Tom
2007-10-31 16:06         ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-31 18:14           ` Update (Now a False Alarm) " Morrison, Tom
2007-11-14 17:49           ` 2.6.23.1 - sata_mv (7042) hang with large file operations Morrison, Tom
2007-11-14 17:56             ` Mark Lord
2007-11-14 18:09               ` Morrison, Tom
2007-11-14 18:30                 ` Mark Lord
2007-11-14 20:12                   ` Morrison, Tom
2007-11-14 18:37                 ` Mark Lord
2007-11-14 18:56                 ` Mark Lord
2007-11-14 21:12                   ` Morrison, Tom
2007-11-14 22:29                     ` Mark Lord
2007-11-14 22:31                       ` Mark Lord
2007-11-15 15:43                       ` Morrison, Tom
2007-11-15 16:26                       ` Morrison, Tom
2007-11-15 16:39                         ` Mark Lord
2007-11-15 21:46                           ` Morrison, Tom
2007-11-15 22:14                             ` Mark Lord
2007-11-16  0:07                               ` Morrison, Tom
2007-11-16 13:00                               ` Morrison, Tom
2007-11-16 17:07                               ` Morrison, Tom
2007-12-06 13:57                               ` Revisiting - 2.6.23.8 - Hang with sata_mv (7042) + Flat 4Gig (no holes) Memory Morrison, Tom
     [not found]                                 ` <475D6CC3.2080400@rtr.ca>
2007-12-10 16:46                                   ` Morrison, Tom
2007-12-11 17:28                                   ` Responding to 2 thread <2.6.23.8 - Hang with sata_mv (7042)...> AND <Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone> Morrison, Tom
2007-12-11 17:42                                     ` Mark Lord
2007-12-11 17:53                                       ` Morrison, Tom

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