From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Prakash Punnoor <prakash@punnoor.de>
Subject: Re: SATA status reports update
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:41:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <451DE76C.5090504@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <451DE4BF.70906@shaw.ca>
Robert Hancock wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Prakash Punnoor wrote:
>>> Well, how would one debug it w/o hw docs? Or is it possible to
>>> compare the patch with a working driver for another chipset?
>>
>> Well, it is based off of the standard ADMA[1] specification, albeit
>> with modifications. There is pdc_adma.c, which is also based off
>> ADMA. And the author (from NVIDIA) claims that the driver worked at
>> one time, so maybe it is simply bit rot that broke the driver.
>>
>> If I knew the answer, it would be fixed, so the best answer
>> unfortunately is "who knows".
>>
>> I wish I had the time. But I also wish I had a team of programmers
>> working on libata, too ;-)
>
> Do you know exactly what is allegedly broken in that version? I see that
> there are some functions which are just "TODO"..
I just know it was a working driver at one time.
Jeff
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2006-09-30 3:30 ` SATA status reports update Robert Hancock
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2006-09-30 22:09 ` Robert Hancock
2006-10-01 0:16 ` Tejun Heo
2006-09-29 9:35 Jeff Garzik
2006-09-29 9:49 ` Prakash Punnoor
2006-09-29 9:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-29 10:00 ` Prakash Punnoor
2006-09-29 10:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-30 7:26 ` Prakash Punnoor
2006-09-29 17:51 ` John Stoffel
2006-09-29 18:24 ` Alan Cox
2006-09-29 18:20 ` John Stoffel
2006-10-03 3:02 ` Shem Multinymous
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