From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: FW: ICH10R PMP support Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:04:47 -0400 Message-ID: <48609C8F.90805@pobox.com> References: <023701c8d4dd$d737fa10$85a7ee30$@com> <485F6830.1040000@pobox.com> <485F7356.5050605@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:61447 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750770AbYFXHE7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:04:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <485F7356.5050605@kernel.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: Milo Medin , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Tejun Heo wrote: > Mark Lord wrote: .. >> The 7042 is the best of the Marvell chips, for Linux. > > How high does it go bandwidth-wise? .. The limiting factor will be the bus width of the card and the slot into which it is plugged, I suspect. There are 4-lane PCIe cards out there, and one of those in a 4-lane ("4X") or wider PCIe slot ought to have no real limitations due to the 7042 side of things. Cheers -- Mark Lord Real-Time Remedies Inc. mlord@pobox.com