WIP: ATA to CAM integration
Alexander Motin
mav at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jun 16 05:52:49 UTC 2009
Matthew Dillon wrote:
> I think they mis-spoke. They are SATA-compliant and Port Multiplier
> compliant, and they use FIS-based packets, so they pretty much do away
> with all the ATA baggage, but they don't use the AHCI device interface
> so they won't probe as an AHCI driver.
>
> I can see why they do it that way, though. It looks like they hide
> most of the complexity behind the chipset, which is nice. AHCI
> exposes a lot of that complexity.
>
> It looks like a reasonable chipset.
Agree. It's functionally comparable to the latest AHCI specs, but looks
more user-friendly.
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Alexander Motin
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