Dachuan Fir Qin wrote: > *Project Proposal: SATA AHCI HBA driver enhancement* > > This project is aiming at supporting more ahci-compliant chipsets and > adding more features to ahci driver. > > The webpage of AHCI project for opensolaris is at: > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/device_drivers/projects/AHCI/ > > *A Short Description > ------------------- > *AHCI specification is defined by INTEL and describes the > register-level interface implementation for a Host Controller to > conform to Serial ATA 1.0 and Serial ATA II. The specification > includes a description of the hardware/software interface between > system software and the host controller hardware. > > At the moment, the first phase of ahci driver has been putback into > nevada build 56, and it supports INTEL ICH6 and VIA VT8251 controller. > Currently, Solaris ahci driver conforms to AHCI 1.0 specification and > supports PIO and DMA protocols, Hot Plug, cfgadm, 64-bit addressing, > Intel ICH6 and VIA vt8251 chipsets. > > *Goal > ---- > *The project is planning to support the following features in the future. > > * Supporting more AHCI compatible chipsets > * ATAPI > * Port Multiplier > * MSI Interrupt > * Power Management > * NCQ > > Welcome to join the project, and welcome all kinds of comments and > suggestions. > Thanks in advance... > Regards > Fir Qin > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > +1.
Great job. Best regards, -- Joey Guo, University Program Manager Sun China Engineering & Research Institute http://eri.prc.sun.com/wiki/univ http://blogs.sun.com/JoeyGuo Tel: (86)10-82618200-82245 Mobile: (86)13391817372
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