From: Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>,
"Asai Thambi Samymuthu Pattrayasamy (asamymuthupa) [CONTRACTOR]"
<asamymuthupa@micron.com>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New driver mtipx2xx submission
Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 11:04:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DC0196C.3040309@teksavvy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110502195224.6175bfb0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On 11-05-02 02:52 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> The queue depth and tag limits come from the SATA standard and also leak
> fairly comprehensively into the AHCI spec so not unless the hardware has
> extensions for it and is merely faked SATA (and if you are faking SATA
> you have to wonder why if your goal is max performance)
The reason to "fake" SATA and/or ATA is unchanged since the 1990s:
so that the system BIOS can boot from the device, and the operating system
can work up to the point where it finally loads hardware-specific drivers.
Cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-03 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-28 15:53 New driver mtipx2xx submission Asai Thambi Samymuthu Pattrayasamy (asamymuthupa) [CONTRACTOR]
2011-04-28 22:06 ` Alan Cox
2011-05-02 12:40 ` Asai Thambi Samymuthu Pattrayasamy (asamymuthupa) [CONTRACTOR]
2011-05-02 17:42 ` Alan Cox
2011-05-03 20:07 ` [PATCH 0/3] " Asai Thambi Samymuthu Pattrayasamy (asamymuthupa) [CONTRACTOR]
2011-05-11 17:40 ` Asai Thambi Samymuthu Pattrayasamy (asamymuthupa) [CONTRACTOR]
2011-05-11 19:20 ` Alan Cox
2011-05-21 2:26 ` Asai Thambi S P
2011-05-25 14:36 ` Jeff Moyer
[not found] ` <22A973199D2C2F46933448F6E7990A300239EA77@ntxboimbx31.micron.com>
2011-06-01 19:51 ` Jeff Moyer
2011-06-01 20:21 ` Alan Cox
2011-06-15 1:29 ` Asai Thambi S P
2011-06-15 14:43 ` Jeff Moyer
2011-06-27 23:38 ` Asai Thambi Samymuthu Pattrayasamy (asamymuthupa) [CONTRACTOR]
2011-06-28 15:18 ` Jeff Moyer
2011-06-28 15:31 ` Alan Cox
2011-06-28 15:38 ` Jeff Moyer
2011-07-06 21:43 ` Asai Thambi S P
2011-07-07 7:37 ` Alan Cox
2011-07-26 10:46 ` Alan Cox
2011-07-26 11:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-26 11:49 ` Alan Cox
2011-07-26 18:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-07-29 18:13 ` Asai Thambi S P
2011-08-11 18:36 ` Asai Thambi S P
2011-07-06 21:39 ` Asai Thambi S P
2011-06-02 1:21 ` David Dillow
2011-06-15 1:33 ` Asai Thambi S P
2011-06-15 3:12 ` David Dillow
2011-05-02 18:40 ` Jeff Moyer
2011-05-02 18:52 ` Alan Cox
2011-05-03 15:04 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2011-05-03 15:07 ` Alan Cox
2011-05-03 15:08 ` Mark Lord
2011-05-03 15:02 ` Mark Lord
2011-05-12 14:39 ` Jeff Garzik
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2011-05-03 11:09 Jordan_Hargrave
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