Re: Sata-MV, Intergated Sata Device Support

[Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>]

Byron Bradley wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca> wrote:
>> saeed wrote:
>>  >
>>  > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>  >
>>  >>> ...
>>  >>>
>>  >>> Saeed:  isn't this what your SOC patches already implemented for us?
>>  >>> As near as I can tell, sata_mv now already has support for the 60x1C0.
>>  >> Saeed's stuff didn't support PCI though, and Jon Li is definitely talking
>>  >> about PCI...
>>  > yes, my patch added support for the SoC sata like in the 5182, and this
>>  > is what Jon Li was concerned about. he mentioneded the 60x1C0 pci device
>>  > just to suggest to use it's code for the SoC sata as it is very similar.
>>  ..
>>
>>  I don't think I understand your english there.
>>
>>  Does the current sata_mv driver work as-is with the chipset this person wants?
>>  If not, then exactly what has to change to make it work?
> 
> Jon Li was one of the people who started porting Linux to the Marvell
> Orion 88F5182 before Marvell did it. sata_mv does now work on the
> device Jon was talking about. When this was sent I think we were
> unsure whether it could work over PCI or just the system bus which
> probably confused things a little.
..

Thanks for pointing this out.

So, no further action required -- it already works now.

Got that, Jeff?

Cheers