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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: Acard ATP8620 2SATA / 1 IDE  driver - AHCI.C Nov082007
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:52:26 -0500
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To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
>..
> 2) This chip includes target mode support.  Very nice, well done!
> I hope that standard AHCI eventually supports this nice feature!
..

Speaking of which.  Do we have a strategy as to how to implement/support
the target side of target mode on controllers which can do it?

The Marvell chips also have a target mode feature, and I'd like to add
support for it soon-ish, but it's now clear how you would like it plumbed
into libata.

It's almost like a separate driver/subsystem, except that would be very silly.

???