From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: Mark Nelson <mdnelson8@gmail.com>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Driver for Promise PDC42819 SATA/SAS controller
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:57:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48AF282B.4090904@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18606.60604.356878.363677@harpo.it.uu.se>
Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Mark Nelson writes:
> > > But without docs or a reference driver I cannot really say what it
> > > would take to support it, sorry.
> >
> > Yeah, I figured as much after reading that hardware docs
> > are only available under NDA... I do have Promise's "partial
> > open source driver" all working with the controller; but I
> > don't think that's what you meant by reference driver, is it?
>
> No. Promise's partial-source drivers sometimes contain some useful
> information, like register definitions, but the only useful info
> in the TX4650 driver is the PCI ID list for the T3 chip family.
FWIW there's always the chance it belongs to drivers/scsi/stex.c...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-22 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-15 1:46 Driver for Promise PDC42819 SATA/SAS controller Mark Nelson
2008-08-15 11:10 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-08-21 12:57 ` Mark Nelson
2008-08-21 13:27 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-08-22 0:10 ` Mark Nelson
2008-08-22 16:43 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-08-22 20:57 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2008-08-22 22:01 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-08-23 9:23 ` Mark Nelson
2008-08-23 10:19 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-08-23 10:40 ` Mark Nelson
2008-08-23 11:59 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-09-01 11:10 ` Mark Nelson
2008-09-01 11:37 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-09-01 12:04 ` Mark Nelson
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