On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:31:45AM -0700, Carlos Pardo wrote: > One question. Do the open source driver support pass-through commands ? if > so, how ? If you do not support it, are you planning to implement > pass-through commands sometime in the future ?
I don't know about sata_sil24 in particular. In general, there is a patch in the "libata-dev.git" repository that supports ATA passthru, and this is scheduled to be merged into the main 2.6.x kernel as soon as some bugs are fixed. sata_sil24 definitely needs to support this ATA passthru feature. As implemented, each SATA driver is simply a generic ATA command engine, for any command. struct ata_taskfile (linux/ata.h) has a field that indicates the command protocol used for command delivery (pio, dma, no-data, etc.). Each driver should execute ATA commands based on the specified ATA protocol. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html