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authorTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>2008-04-30 11:35:17 +0400
committerJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>2008-05-06 19:40:57 +0400
commit22bfc6d5e19b72d50535ce32fd6dee2ce2e75775 (patch)
treeab0a8061ee01534fe723e89af23e71b67c5480db /drivers/ata/sata_inic162x.c
parentba66b242b1c3432b44d893c64124522b3bdce71e (diff)
downloadlinux-22bfc6d5e19b72d50535ce32fd6dee2ce2e75775.tar.xz
sata_inic162x: update intro comment, up the version and drop EXPERIMENTAL
sata_inic162x is now ready for production use. Bump the version, explain what's working and what's not and drop EXPERIMENTAL. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ata/sata_inic162x.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/ata/sata_inic162x.c36
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ata/sata_inic162x.c b/drivers/ata/sata_inic162x.c
index 8c1f06a3c8fd..3ead02fe379e 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/sata_inic162x.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/sata_inic162x.c
@@ -10,13 +10,33 @@
* right. Documentation is available at initio's website but it only
* documents registers (not programming model).
*
- * - ATA disks work.
- * - Hotplug works.
- * - ATAPI read works but burning doesn't. This thing is really
- * peculiar about ATAPI and I couldn't figure out how ATAPI PIO and
- * ATAPI DMA WRITE should be programmed. If you've got a clue, be
- * my guest.
- * - Both STR and STD work.
+ * This driver has interesting history. The first version was written
+ * from the documentation and a 2.4 IDE driver posted on a Taiwan
+ * company, which didn't use any IDMA features and couldn't handle
+ * LBA48. The resulting driver couldn't handle LBA48 devices either
+ * making it pretty useless.
+ *
+ * After a while, initio picked the driver up, renamed it to
+ * sata_initio162x, updated it to use IDMA for ATA DMA commands and
+ * posted it on their website. It only used ATA_PROT_DMA for IDMA and
+ * attaching both devices and issuing IDMA and !IDMA commands
+ * simultaneously broke it due to PIRQ masking interaction but it did
+ * show how to use the IDMA (ADMA + some initio specific twists)
+ * engine.
+ *
+ * Then, I picked up their changes again and here's the usable driver
+ * which uses IDMA for everything. Everything works now including
+ * LBA48, CD/DVD burning, suspend/resume and hotplug. There are some
+ * issues tho. Result Tf is not resported properly, NCQ isn't
+ * supported yet and CD/DVD writing works with DMA assisted PIO
+ * protocol (which, for native SATA devices, shouldn't cause any
+ * noticeable difference).
+ *
+ * Anyways, so, here's finally a working driver for inic162x. Enjoy!
+ *
+ * initio: If you guys wanna improve the driver regarding result TF
+ * access and other stuff, please feel free to contact me. I'll be
+ * happy to assist.
*/
#include <linux/kernel.h>
@@ -28,7 +48,7 @@
#include <scsi/scsi_device.h>
#define DRV_NAME "sata_inic162x"
-#define DRV_VERSION "0.3"
+#define DRV_VERSION "0.4"
enum {
MMIO_BAR_PCI = 5,