Re: Parallel ATA with libata status with the patches I'm working on

Jeff Garzik
2005-11-04T03:35:15Z

Alan Cox wrote:
> I've not really looked much outside of the PCI space yet (my first goal
> is to rescue the PC world and to get testing it wants x86 users) but
> Jeffs core libata code is strictly bus agnostic.

Some embedded dude (a Finn, I don't remember his name) wrote a libata
SATA driver for his company's embedded SATA controller... on the ARM
platform.

Though the driver itself hasn't appeared, libata is apparently working
quite well with this embedded, non-PCI, ARM SATA chip.

Jeff