Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4

Jens Axboe
2005-08-01T20:18:49Z

On Mon, Aug 01 2005, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Otto Meier wrote:
> >My question is also are these features (NCQ/TCQ) and the heigher
> >datarate be supported by this
> >modification? or is only the basic feature set of sata 150 TX4 supported?
>
> NCQ support is under development. Search the archives for Jens Axboe's
> recent patches to support this. I don't know about TCQ.

It's done for ahci, because we have documentation. I have no intention
on working on NCQ for chipset where full documentation is not available.
But the bulk of the code is the libata core support, adding NCQ support
to a sata_* driver should now be fairly trivial (with docs).

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Jens Axboe