Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:37:13 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Some sata_mv error messages |
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Denis Leroy wrote: > This is great news. Is there any relationship between the development of > this driver and the one maintained by Marvell that's available from > their web site ? Their latest version (3.6.1) is released under the GPL, > and is a very solid driver based our experience with it over the past > few years, though it's targeted at older versions of the linux kernel > and needs some porting to 2.6.16 (and contains redundant stuff like its > own scsi-ata layer).
There is a we-use-that-driver-as-documentation-sometimes relationship.
It's quite un-Linux for a Linux driver, and others have reported that sata_mv in its current state is more stable for them than the Marvell behemoth GPL driver.
Jeff
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