Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd

Jeff Garzik
2003-07-22T18:39:43Z

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:45:33PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> Some folk I've done some consulting work for bought a zillion
> Promise SATA cards. They were able to convince Promise to
> release their SATA driver, which was formerly available only as
> a binary only kernel module, under the terms of the GPL.

That's definitely nice of the vendor.

FWIW it does not include any RAID format support.

> cards. As a temporary download location, the GPL'd driver can be
> obtained from http://www.busybox.net/pdc-ultra-1.00.0.10.tgz

Bart, Alan, and I have been looking at this. It uses the ancient CAM
model, that we don't really want to merge directly in the kernel. It's
very close to the libata model, from the user perspective, so life is
good.

Jeff