Re: Serial ATA (SATA) on Linux status report

[Zoltan Boszormenyi]

Jeff Garzik írta:
> Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
> > Could it be that Region 1 of the Promise controller contains
> > the PATA I/O ports? Then it could be driven with a drivers/ide
> > driver... Maybe common locking is needed between sata_promise.c
> > and a driver for it's PATA side, I don't know.
>
>
> Nope, the PATA ports are stuck in the same place as the SATA ports...
>
>     Jeff

Then the solution could be be that drivers/ide/ide.c generic
functions must be bridged/duplicated (short term) or moved (long term)
to libata. And maybe in 2.7 drivers/ide ll drivers are rewritten
(again) to use it from there.

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi

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