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libata update

From:  Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To:  linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject:  [sata] libata update
Date:  Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:31:39 -0500
Cc:  Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>


A ton of SATA work in the past few weeks, but not a lot terribly new in 
this update.  The update is mainly to rediff against the latest 2.4 and 
2.6 kernels.  Note that this does not include experimental patches. 
Notably absent are

* lba48 (large transfer) requests
* splitting up Promise driver into sata_promise (tx2/tx4) and sata_sx4 
(sx4) drivers.
* adding better flush-cache / writeback caching support

The above are all experimental patches I have locally.

Finally, per user requests, I have started posting the associated 
changelog as well.

BK repositories:
	http://gkernel.bkbits.net/libata-2.[46]

2.6.x patch and changelog:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.6.5-rc3-libata1.patch.bz2
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.6.5-rc3-libata1.log

2.4.x patch and changelog:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.4.26-rc1-libata2.patch.bz2
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.4.26-rc1-libata2.log

Drivers for SATA-2 controllers have been in development, and should be 
making their appearance soon.



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