+1
Furthermore, I have the Via AHCI controler, and I would be willing to
test certain features. I'd really, really like to see some of this
backported to S10, as I'm running S10 on such a box in production right
now. (I'm using the controllers in IDE compatibility mode.)
-- Garrett
Yunsong (Roamer) Lu wrote:
> Second!
>
> 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
>>
>>
>>
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