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From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [U-Boot-DM]  dwc_ahsata vs ahci
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:20:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201207301120.40216.marex@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5D7CDCE0FBAD974596A672304F004DC41554A7@039-SN2MPN1-011.039d.mgd.msft.net>

Dear Lv Terry-R65388,

> Hi Pavel,
> 
> 	The ahci.c is a ahci driver using pci interface, while dwc_asata is not.
> 
> 	 u-boot don't have a pure ahci driver now, thus we have to reuse some 
ahci
> parts from ahci.c in dwc_asata.c.

Ok, I think we can unify that eventually.

> 	Thanks~~
> 
> Yours
> Terry
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de [mailto:u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de] On
> Behalf Of Stefano Babic Sent: 2012?7?29? 14:56
> To: Pavel Herrmann
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; u-boot-dm at lists.denx.de
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] dwc_ahsata vs ahci
> 
> On 28/07/2012 15:44, Pavel Herrmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> Hi Pavel,
> 
> > While working on the DM project, I found out that there are two
> > implementations of AHCI drivers - one in block/ahci.c, one in
> > block/dwc_ahsata.c
> 
> ooopppss !
> 
> > what is the difference between them (apart from the obvious, ahci.c
> > exposes SCSI API, dwc_ahsata exposes SATA API)? are there any problems
> > that would prevent me from merging them?
> 
> No, there are not evident reasons !
> 
> dwc_asata was inserted to add SATA support for Freescale MX5 family, and I
> missed that a similar driver was already in u-boot. dwc_ahsata was ported
> from Freescale's u-boot, and linked only for MX5 / MX6 SOCs. I think it is
> a very good idea to merge the two drivers (dwc_ahsata seems an updated
> version of the original driver), thanks to note this !
> 
> Best regards,
> Stefano Babic
> 
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Best regards,
Marek Vasut

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-30  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-28 13:44 [U-Boot] dwc_ahsata vs ahci Pavel Herrmann
2012-07-29  6:55 ` Stefano Babic
2012-07-30  8:16   ` Lv Terry-R65388
2012-07-30  9:20     ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2012-08-23 15:45       ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot-DM] " Marek Vasut

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