Re: Marvell SATA driver

[KIYOHARA Takashi <kiyohara%kk.iij4u.or.jp@localhost>]

Hi! all,


From: KIYOHARA Takashi <kiyohara%kk.iij4u.or.jp@localhost>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:13:11 +0900 (JST)

> I will commit support for mvsata at next week.
> 
>   latest version
>     
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/kiyohara/orion_nas/mvsata-20090714.diff

I added a few description of LSI function.

 .El
 .Pp
+The 88SX60xx and later supports Native Command Queue. Also the 88SX70xx
+supports ATAPI.
+.Pp
 The MVSATA_WITHOUTDMA option not include the DMA function of
 .Nm

Thanks,
--
kiyohara

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.Dd July 19, 2009
.Dt MVSATA 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm mvsata
.Nd Marvell Hercules-I and Hercules-II SATA controllers driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "mvsata* at pci? dev ? function ?"
.Pp
.Cd "options MVSATA_WITHOUTDMA"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver supports the Marvell Hercules-I and Hercules-II family of SATA
controllers,
interfacing the hardware with the
.Xr ata 4
and
.Xr atapi 4
subsystems.
.Pp
The following controllers are supported by the
.Nm
driver:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
.It Marvell 88SX50xx Hercules-I
.It Marvell 88SX60xx Hercules-II
.It Adaptec RAID 1420SA
.It Marvell 88SX70xx Hercules-II
.It Adaptec RAID 1430SA
.It Triones Technologies RocketRAID 2310 RAID card
.El
.Pp
The 88SX60xx and later supports Native Command Queue. Also the 88SX70xx
supports ATAPI.
.Pp
The MVSATA_WITHOUTDMA option not include the DMA function of
.Nm
And,
it operates by PIO with
.Xr wdc 4 .
The
.Nm
will become more small though this loses the speed.
For instance, there is a possibility to be used with GENERIC_INSTALL.
.Pp
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ata 4 ,
.Xr atapi 4 ,
.Xr pci 4 ,
.Xr wd 4
.Xr wdc 4
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Nx 6.0 .
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An KIYOHARA Takashi Aq kiyohara%kk.iij4u.or.jp@localhost .
.Sh BUGS
.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
.It SATA Native Command Queuing is not yet supported .
.It Device hot swapping is not yet supported .
.It ATAPI is not yet tested .
.It Marvell's Software RAID is not yet supported by the
.Xr ataraid 4
driver.
.Xr raid 4
can be used instead.
.El