Re: aic94xx status

Luben Tuikov
2006-07-20T18:39:07Z

--- Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Robert Tarte wrote:
> >> 1) SATA support. We at least need this stubbed out so seeing a SATA
> >> device won't cause nasty things to happen (IBM is working on this).
> >> Ideally, we need to integrate this driver with Brian King's SATA/SAS
> >> code, but no-one who has this board has a sata device and vice versa.
> >
> > [Tarte, Robert] I'm not sure what Brian King's SATA/SA code is, but I do
> > have boards that use the razor chip and I have SATA devices.
>
> The patch referred to here is a patch to libata that adds a set of APIs
> that allows a SAS HBA to hook into libata to control SATA devices. It
> was written so that I could get ipr to hook into libata, and the hope
> is that it could be used by other SAS drivers as well. Unfortunately,
> no other SAS drivers that support SATA passthrough have really tried
> using it yet.

Maybe this is because they have SATL a la proper.

Luben

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> Brian
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