From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261351AbUC3Vck (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:32:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261347AbUC3Vci (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:32:38 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:18818 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261351AbUC3Vby (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:31:54 -0500 Message-ID: <4069E73B.1040109@pobox.com> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:31:39 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org CC: Linux Kernel Subject: [sata] libata update Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org A ton of SATA work in the past few weeks, but not a lot terribly new in this update. The update is mainly to rediff against the latest 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. Note that this does not include experimental patches. Notably absent are * lba48 (large transfer) requests * splitting up Promise driver into sata_promise (tx2/tx4) and sata_sx4 (sx4) drivers. * adding better flush-cache / writeback caching support The above are all experimental patches I have locally. Finally, per user requests, I have started posting the associated changelog as well. BK repositories: http://gkernel.bkbits.net/libata-2.[46] 2.6.x patch and changelog: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.6.5-rc3-libata1.patch.bz2 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.6.5-rc3-libata1.log 2.4.x patch and changelog: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.4.26-rc1-libata2.patch.bz2 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.4.26-rc1-libata2.log Drivers for SATA-2 controllers have been in development, and should be making their appearance soon.