From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030439AbVIVQi7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:38:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030440AbVIVQi7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:38:59 -0400 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:35228 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030439AbVIVQi6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:38:58 -0400 Subject: Libata for parallel ATA controllers From: Alan Cox To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:05:26 +0100 Message-Id: <1127408726.18840.126.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I mentioned a while ago I was hacking on libata and PATA drivers. I've also fed a few bits of the needed support code to Jeff Garzik as I went. Some initial patches are now ready for wider testing although strictly suicide squad material at this point. I'm now at the point I'm running a full Fedora Core 4 with CONFIG_IDE=n using four disk raid on SIL680 controllers. A lot of hardware isn't yet covered - I'm working on adding more support but I wanted to start with weirder devices first to better understand what was needed in libata. Status info and patches are at http://zeniv.linux.org.uk/~alan/IDE Enjoy but remember this is very early code and don't use it for production!