From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 23:41:05 -0400 To: 9p-st@imu.li, 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <4ec0eca4c11cdca62e52a010513e7983@kw.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <2579d4.9b49d432.xlWG.mx@tumtum.plumbweb.net> References: <2579d4.9b49d432.xlWG.mx@tumtum.plumbweb.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] kirkwood sata Topicbox-Message-UUID: 750832b6-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon Apr 2 22:46:26 EDT 2012, 9p-st@imu.li wrote: > has anyone done anything with this? it appears to be kindred to the chips > covered by pc/sdmv50xx.c, but with two ports per chip and no bridges. > > or maybe there really are bridges and the kw sheet doesn't mention them. yes, i have a driver. it's pretty amazing that the sata can be driven at ~100mb/s, given the rather weak cpu. the chip structure is most similar to the kw itself rather than the kw sata. although its trying to expose only the sata. unfortunately, it relies on an unreleased version of sd. it's unreleased because it really didn't go over well. (i'm considering starting over with a port driver/protocol driver/disk model and ditching sd entirely.) - erik