Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd

Alan Cox
2003-07-23T10:23:05Z

On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 02:59, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> I have already cut all ties with Promise so here is the deal.
> I no longer have to count the number of fingers on my hand between hand
> shakes. IE no extras and not shortages.

Thats ok - now they are doing GPL drivers themselves they don't need
you any more.

Promise did a SCSI CAM driver because their hardware can queue commands
without TCQ - which drivers/ide can't cope with. Otherwise I'd just have
used the same type of changes the FreeBSD people did for 2037x.

Its also interesting because it has a hardware XOR engine.