From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>, Otto Meier <gf435@gmx.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 16:30:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42EE866B.5030005@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050801201756.GQ22569@suse.de>
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.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-01 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-01 9:19 Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4 Otto Meier
2005-08-01 14:43 ` Daniel Drake
2005-08-01 15:12 ` Otto Meier
2005-08-01 15:28 ` Otto Meier
2005-08-01 16:16 ` Daniel Drake
2005-08-01 20:17 ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-01 20:30 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2005-08-01 20:35 ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-02 8:18 ` Otto Meier
2005-08-01 20:32 ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-01 20:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-08-01 20:42 ` Jens Axboe
2005-08-01 20:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-08-02 6:48 ` Jens Axboe
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