par. ata not seen if sata is present

[Søren Schmidt]

Hi

Yes, that I've told several users that asked for this, however it will  
need changes to the AHCI code, and that needs alot of testing to  
ensure it doesn't break any of the other dozen chipsets etc.

Anyhow, I still need hands on the HW to work in a rational way on  
this, just as its always been.

The problem is that the number of professional users/vendors that used  
to donated HW to keep ATA up to date has more or less dried up over  
the last 2-3 years...

As I dont have the means to buy every possible board out there to get  
support going, the support will depend on what HW I eventually have  
access to here in the lab.

-Søren




On 26May, 2008, at 9:58 , Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:

> Andrey Chernov wrote:
>> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 09:39:10AM +0200, S?ren Schmidt wrote:
>>> Same routine as for the last decade, get me the HW and I'll work  
>>> out  how to support it if at all possible.
>> There is Linux kernel on the ASUS site (which use this Marvel chip  
>> very often) claimed to support this chip, it may helps:
>> http://dlsvr02.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5E3/Sata_Linux.zip
>
> Also, there is ahci.c from linux libata with marvell PATA support.
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git;a=blob_plain;f=drivers/ata/ahci.c;h=10a2e09616bd61a455d7867464f49bcb7ba1bb87
>
> I think it's easiest to port to our ahci driver.
>
> -- 
> WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
>