Re: Sata-MV, Intergated Sata Device Support

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Mark Lord wrote:
> 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?

hehe, thanks :)