Re: Query about the NetBSD siisata driver!

["Jonathan A. Kollasch" <jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 03:59:14PM +0530, Upakul Barkakaty wrote:
> Hi all,
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> Greetings.
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> I am working on a board having the Silicon Image 3132 Sata controller, and
> trying to use it with NetBSD.
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> Since I am new to Sata, could you please help me with the components I need
> to enable for this.. I suppose I will need:
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>    1. The siisata driver [/src/sys/dev/ic/siisata.c,
>    /src/sys/dev/pci/siisata_pci.c]
>    2. The ata framework [/src/sys/dev/ata/ata.c]
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> Do I need to enable a separate driver for the Hard Drives? I came across the
> wd driver, does it support all families of Sata hard drives? Is there any
> other alternative driver I could use for the Hard disks?
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> Is there any dependency on any other intermediate layer, which I might be
> missing out?
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> Any help in this regard will be greatly appreciated.

wd(4) handles all ATA disks.

Dependencies are described in the various config(5) files,
such as src/sys/conf/files, src/sys/dev/ata/files.ata and
src/sys/dev/pci/files.pci.

Hope that helps.

        Jonathan Kollasch