Promise TX4000 MFC request

Dmitry Morozovsky marck at rinet.ru
Mon Aug 18 08:44:57 PDT 2003


Dear Soeren,

a couple of months ago, namely

> revision 1.8
> date: 2003/05/01 06:20:50;  author: sos;  state: Exp;  lines: +17 -2
> I'm pleased to announce that Promise is now supporting the FreeBSD
> project by providing documentation (under NDA) and hardware for
> testing. This commit is the first result of the cooperation, and
> adds support for several of their new controllers that we didn't
> support before (and probably newer would have without this arrangement).
>
> Add support for the Promise SATA150 TX2/TX4 and the Promise TX4000
> controllers. This also adds support for various motherboard fitted
> Promise SATA/ATA chips.
> Note that this code uses memory mapped registers to minimize overhead.
> I belive FreeBSD has made another first in the Open Source world
> by being able to release support for this :)

Will these changes (in particular for TX4000, as we just got such a card) be
MFCed in near future? I would be glad to test new driver ;-)

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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