Re: SATA: Marvell 88SE6141 kernel support?

Jeff Garzik
2007-03-22T19:45:45Z

genestapp@charter.net wrote:
> sorry about it taking so long to get back to you. I noticed it still doesn't
> work after upgrading to fedora 6 and the newest kernel (at the time) so I thought I'd give your legacy driver a try (if you
> still have it) I'd love to have those 4 extra sata ports. Just a question with
> the legacy driver would the performance take a hit? I'd be using the ports to
> add more disks to raid arrays.
>
> kernel version: 2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6:
> linux distro: fedora core 6 64bit
> lspci -v output for marvell sata -
>
> 03:00.0 SATA controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 6141 (rev 01) (prog-if 81)

If you are only using the SATA side of things, you can probably just add
the PCI ID to the driver.

Or test the patch found in -mm tree.

Jeff