Re: [PATCHSET] libata: PATA driver for Celleb

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 07:09:25PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Thursday 15 February 2007 18:14, Linas Vepstas wrote:

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Linas has done a pretty good job on improving the driver in the last half
year or so and he also has access to all the necessary hardware so I think
he would be the right person for the job.

It seems I've been nominated twice. Since I'm expecting future activity
to drop to zero, how hard can this be? :-)

I fear that the hardest part is yet to come, 

Well, then, its a good thing I put a smiley face at the end of the
sentence, eh?

when we integrate the
driver for the the PS3 (currently called gelic_net) into spidernet.
The trouble is that the hardware is sufficiently similar to share
all the high-level mechanisms like the DMA data structures and
descriptor chains, but the low-level mechanisms are hidden in the
hypervisor on the PS3. Someone will have to invest a significant
amount of time coordinating this so we don't break celleb and qs20
in the process.

Since I've got the driver more or less memorized, I don't expect this
to be an intellectual challenge. Which sometimes has the side effect
of my getting bored, and dropping things on the floor.

I also think that you'd do a good job doing this, but it may be
more that what you are willing to do without official funding of the
time you spend on it. 

(Ardnt knows that my spidernet work is "moonlighting", off-the-books 
work.)  I'll ask my employer.

Of course the actual amount of work will
depend a lot on the quality of the spidernet patches coming from
Sony to the spidernet maintainer.

I guess I'll have to ask my employer for a ps3 that I can do 
some "research" on.

--linas