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From: Adriaan Peeters <apeeters@lashout.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jurgen Kramer <gtm.kramer@inter.nl.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Using SATA in PATA compatible mode?
Date: 07 Jun 2003 14:01:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1054987313.495.19.camel@bari.lashout.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1054947612.17190.32.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>

On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 03:00, Alan Cox wrote:

> 	Promise 20376 - Promise have a GPL driver but there are integration
> things to resolve (mostly our end not theirs)

Oh, this would be very good news. As there was no GPL'ed driver for this
chipset, I bought one with a SiI3112 chipset.
Where can this driver be found ? As when I mailed promise about a week
ago, they stated:

> The source code for the SATA chips will not be released, due to
competitive
> reasons. We support the linux distributions of Suse and Redhat mainly.
> 
> A partial open source code will become available in due time, but we do not
> expect that this year.

I hope they changed course :)

It would be nice to have a reference to the drivers in the lkml
archives.

-- 
Adriaan Peeters <apeeters@lashout.net>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-07 11:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-06 20:46 Jurgen Kramer
2003-06-07  1:00 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-07 10:32   ` Mark Watts
2003-06-08  0:41     ` Jurgen Kramer
2003-06-07 12:01   ` Adriaan Peeters [this message]
2003-06-07 19:29     ` Alan Cox
2003-06-07 12:11   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

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