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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

  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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