Thread (15 messages) 15 messages, 3 authors, 2008-09-01

Re: Driver for Promise PDC42819 SATA/SAS controller

From: Mikael Pettersson <hidden>
Date: 2008-08-22 22:02:17

Jeff Garzik writes:
 > Mikael Pettersson wrote:
 > > Mark Nelson writes:
 > >  > > But without docs or a reference driver I cannot really say what it
 > >  > > would take to support it, sorry.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Yeah, I figured as much after reading that hardware docs
 > >  > are only available under NDA... I do have Promise's "partial
 > >  > open source driver" all working with the controller; but I
 > >  > don't think that's what you meant by reference driver, is it?
 > > 
 > > No. Promise's partial-source drivers sometimes contain some useful
 > > information, like register definitions, but the only useful info
 > > in the TX4650 driver is the PCI ID list for the T3 chip family.
 > 
 > FWIW there's always the chance it belongs to drivers/scsi/stex.c...

True, but unfortunately I doubt it as the PCI IDs in the tx4650
(partial) sources bear no resemblance to the ones in stex.c.

The tx4650 driver lists 35xx for octopusII, 630x for napa_fpga, 377x/3Fxx
for T3 (the chip in question), and 662x for SX4, whereas stex.c lists
x350/4302 for shasta, 7250 for vsc (vitesse?), and 8650 for yosemite.
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