Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4

Otto Meier
2005-08-02T08:19:13Z

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>> Jens Axboe wrote:
>>
>>> 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).
>>>
>> I have docs for the Promise NCQ stuff. Once NCQ is fully fleshed out (I
>> haven't wrapped my brain around it in a couple weeks), it shouldn't be
>> difficult to add NCQ support to sata_promise.
>>
>
> Excellent!
>
>
Sounds great. If you have implemented NCQ for sata_promise it would be
nice if you
could forward me the patch, because i'm not subscribed to the ML's

best regards
Otto Meier