From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Driver for Promise PDC42819 SATA/SAS controller Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:57:15 -0400 Message-ID: <48AF282B.4090904@garzik.org> References: <65a6ef750808141846h1104bc1cj9a9c0bb721b62f58@mail.gmail.com> <18597.25642.934859.944853@harpo.it.uu.se> <65a6ef750808210557o1cf07c5fj9d273413003037f8@mail.gmail.com> <18605.27969.933718.902876@harpo.it.uu.se> <65a6ef750808211710k4f1e18b5y74b8d51e30c5900@mail.gmail.com> <18606.60604.356878.363677@harpo.it.uu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:38605 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752420AbYHVU5V (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:57:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <18606.60604.356878.363677@harpo.it.uu.se> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mikael Pettersson Cc: Mark Nelson , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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