From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751288AbVHLVdW (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:33:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751293AbVHLVdV (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:33:21 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:16301 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751285AbVHLVdU (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:33:20 -0400 Message-ID: <42FD159D.7080107@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:33:17 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: monz@danbbs.dk CC: Linux IDE Mailing List , Linux Kernel , SCSI Mailing List Subject: Re: SATA status report updated References: <42FC2EF8.7030404@pobox.com> <42FCF5D3.1080409@danbbs.dk> In-Reply-To: <42FCF5D3.1080409@danbbs.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mogens Valentin wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> >> Things in SATA-land have been moving along recently, so I updated the >> software status report: >> >> http://linux.yyz.us/sata/software-status.html > > > >> Queueing support, NCQ: > >> #3 will be supported by libata, for all hardware and devices that > >> support NCQ. > > I guess this means libata support for HW-based NCQ. > It also could mean software/driver implemented NCQ, which could work on > chipsets not supporting HW-NCQ in unison with a disk having NCQ? NCQ by definition -requires- support in the controller chip. >> Although I have not updated it in several weeks, folks may wish to >> refer to the hardware status report as well: >> >> http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html > > > How well does libata work with the newest ULi chipsets? > If not well, is there a possible timeframe? No idea. I don't see many bug reports, so I suppose its OK. Jeff