From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Support for PATA in Promise 378 driver
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:20:35 -0500
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To: Anton Starikov <A.Starikov@utwente.nl>
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Anton Starikov wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> As I can see, there is no support for PATA port on promise 378 chip
> currently.
> 
> Is this support planned?
> If now, why? Is there some religious reasons?  ;) 
> Or just matter of time?
> 
> I just see, that I'm not one person who can't migrate to 2.6 because of
> using PATA port on 378.
> There is no driver from Promise, driver from libata also does not
> support.
> 
> So, now I see two solutions:
> 1) adopt promise driver from vendor (which use cam) for 2.6
> kernel, if there is religious reasons ;)
> 2) try to work under libata promise driver in order to have
> support for PATA port. 


It's a to-do item at the moment...

	Jeff