HEADSUP! SATA PHY code added for nVidia, SiS and VIA chips

[Søren Schmidt]

Adam Gregoire wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 17:37 +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote:
> 
>>As the subject says I've added support for for the SATA PHY (the serial 
>>link interface HW) to -current. This is needed to sort out problems with 
>>the connection and on those chipsets that support its, handle hotplug.
>>
>>At any rate, since I dont have any of these chipsets in the lab the code 
>>was done blindfolded from docs, so it needs testing and quite possibly 
>>bugfixing as well.
>>
>>Please report of any success/failures, and in both cases the output from 
>>dmesg would be handy, as well as knowing if software inititated 
>>detach/attach via atacontrol works, and on the nVidia if even hotplug is 
>>possible...
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
> 
> My boot takes about twice as long as it did, having some
> probe/connection issues.

Yeah, I know, thats a temporary nuisance of the PHY connect code as it 
is now. This is going to be reduced significantly soon, but I wanted to 
be on the safe side with this for starters...


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-Søren