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From: Andre Tomt <lkml@tomt.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kashouty@dakotainet.net
Subject: Re: promise 20376
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:26:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1068996385.1448.5.camel@slurv.pasop.tomt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FB78BAF.3060403@dakotainet.net>

On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 15:37, merwan kashouty wrote:
> i was just wondering if there was any further progress on a possible 
> native kernel driver for the promise 20376 sata chip... i have it 
> running now but with the proprietary driver from promise's website.... 
> but it seems to work well,
> 
>  Timing buffer-cache reads:   1692 MB in  2.00 seconds = 846.00 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  232 MB in  3.01 seconds =  77.08 MB/sec
> 
> much better then the reported silicon image tests i have seen....  i 
> hope someone is still talking to promise about releasing the full source 
> to get this into the kernel or working to reverse engineer a driver... 
> all the information i have found searching lkml seems to be atleast a 
> couple of months old.

Search again :)

jgarzik's libata supports the promise SATA chips. The support is a
little preliminary still, but it seems to work ok for many.

libata is already merged in 2.6.0-test, and is available as a patch for
2.4 on ftp.kernel.org.

Jeff has also said on the list that promise is cooperating on this open
source driver.


      reply	other threads:[~2003-11-16 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-16 14:37 merwan kashouty
2003-11-16 15:26 ` Andre Tomt [this message]

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