From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264977AbUELF2y (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 May 2004 01:28:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264978AbUELF2y (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 May 2004 01:28:54 -0400 Received: from wl-193.226.227-253-szolnok.dunaweb.hu ([193.226.227.253]:49618 "EHLO szolnok.dunaweb.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264977AbUELF2x (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 May 2004 01:28:53 -0400 Message-ID: <40A1B5A7.9020805@freemail.hu> Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 07:27:03 +0200 From: Zoltan Boszormenyi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; hu-HU; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: hu, en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Serial ATA (SATA) on Linux status report References: <40A0A4EC.8050705@freemail.hu> <40A16E21.9080201@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <40A16E21.9080201@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik írta: > Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote: >> Could it be that Region 1 of the Promise controller contains >> the PATA I/O ports? Then it could be driven with a drivers/ide >> driver... Maybe common locking is needed between sata_promise.c >> and a driver for it's PATA side, I don't know. > > > Nope, the PATA ports are stuck in the same place as the SATA ports... > > Jeff Then the solution could be be that drivers/ide/ide.c generic functions must be bridged/duplicated (short term) or moved (long term) to libata. And maybe in 2.7 drivers/ide ll drivers are rewritten (again) to use it from there. Best regards, Zoltán Böszörményi