From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patric Karlsson Subject: Re: stable basic 4-port SATA card Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:37:14 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200711151001.lAFA11wC019059@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 main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:60298 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759290AbXLMNpI (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:45:08 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1J2oKw-0003BA-9e for linux-ide@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:42:50 +0000 Received: from lx32.ce.chalmers.se ([129.16.20.100]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:42:50 +0000 Received: from patric by lx32.ce.chalmers.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:42:50 +0000 In-Reply-To: <200711151001.lAFA11wC019059@harpo.it.uu.se> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Mikael Pettersson wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:32:14 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: >> * sata_promise: Generally works okay; however there are still some >> problems with recent 3Gbps chips. (Mikael, please pitch in) > > Right, 2nd-gen 3Gbps chips have had "intermittent" issues, > which we hope are cured by the recent ASIC bug workaround, > but it will take a while for that fix to propagate out. > To speed up that process I'm considering backporting the fix > to 2.6.23 and 2.6.22. > > NCQ and PMP are supported in the hardware and in the vendor's > driver, but not yet in sata_promise. My intention is to add > NCQ soon, but there's no time-plan yet for this. > > /Mikael > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Backporting would be nice, since we're still some ways from a stable 2.6.24, and I'm not comfortable running -rc kernels in production enviroments.