Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4

[Otto Meier]

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>   
> > Jens Axboe wrote:
> >     
> > > On Mon, Aug 01 2005, Daniel Drake wrote:
> > >
> > >       
> > > > Otto Meier wrote:
> > > >
> > > >         
> > > > > My question is also are these features (NCQ/TCQ) and the heigher 
> > > > > datarate be supported by this
> > > > > modification? or is only the basic feature set of sata 150 TX4 supported?
> > > > >           
> > > > NCQ support is under development. Search the archives for Jens Axboe's 
> > > > recent patches to support this. I don't know about TCQ.
> > > >         
> > > It's done for ahci, because we have documentation. I have no intention
> > > on working on NCQ for chipset where full documentation is not available.
> > > But the bulk of the code is the libata core support, adding NCQ support
> > > to a sata_* driver should now be fairly trivial (with docs).
> > >       
> > I have docs for the Promise NCQ stuff.  Once NCQ is fully fleshed out (I 
> > haven't wrapped my brain around it in a couple weeks), it shouldn't be 
> > difficult to add NCQ support to sata_promise.
> >     
>
> Excellent!
>
>   
Sounds great. If you have implemented NCQ  for sata_promise it would be 
nice if you
could forward me the patch, because i'm not  subscribed to the ML's

best regards
Otto Meier
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