Subject: Re: Satalink (SiI 3x12) on cardbus and SiI 3124/3132 status?
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@lists.veego.de>
List: current-users
Date: 09/11/2007 08:42:25
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 09:36:27AM -0500, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 09:32:55AM +0200, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > there are some eSATA/SATA cardbus cards available (e.g. the Delock 61618 card),
> > which are using the SiI 3x12 chips.
> > 
> > I was looking at the pci driver, but it has a lot of pci specific code in
> > it.
> 
> Something like the pci/if_rtk_pci.c and cardbus/if_rtk_cardbus.c
> and ic/rtl8139.c (whatever) split would have to be implemented.

Right, where I was looking at pci/njs_pci.c, cardbus/njs_cardbus.c
and ic/ninjascsi32.c. But that would also mean that the current
satalink.c driver has to be modified.

> > Btw, what is the status of the SiI 3124 and 3132 chip support?
> 
> Mostly done.  I just have to stop sitting on it.
> I've kind of lost most of my motivation, so functionality
> beyond the basics may not happen soon.

Which functionality do you mean?
NCQ?

> Thanks for the poking.

I was just curious.

Regards,
Bernd