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From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 14:38:29 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot] Marvell Armada XP SATA support
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Hi Anton,

On 23.06.2015 13:23, Bin Meng wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Anton Schubert <anton.schubert@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> we are trying to replace an old marvell uboot on mv78260 with the current
>> version,

Great. Welcome. :)

>> but noticed that there doesn't seem to be a driver for the SATA
>> controller.
>> Are there any plans to support SATA on Armada XP or is our only option to
>> migrate the old driver?
>>
>
> Is the Marvell SATA controller AHCI compatible? If yes, U-Boot has the
> AHCI driver which should work.

No, the AXP SATA controller is unfortunately not AHCI compatible (the 
A38x seems to be though). The mvsata driver (drivers/block/mvsata_ide.c) 
might be a pretty good start for the AXP though (I didn't check this 
closely).

Thanks,
Stefan