libata update posted, and news

Updates to the Silicon Image and ServerWorks drivers.

News:
* will freeze current codebase as libata 1.0, without queueing support. libata 2.x development has already begun, and will support queueing,
sata2, and will build upon the existing codebase.
* ServerWorks seems stable, will remove 'beta' label soon

Notes:
* Silicon Image support is still considered to be unstable. drivers/ide's siimage.c is preferred.
* Silicon Image users with Seagate SATA, particularly if you know if you have the "mod15write" bug, should make sure that the driver is properly applying the errata fix.

Patch for 2.4.x:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.4.25-pre4-libata1.patch.bz2

Patch for 2.6.x:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.6.1-bk2-libata1.patch.bz2

BK repositories:
bk://gkernel.bkbits.net/libata-2.[45]

Changelog versus 2.6.x mainline attached.

[email protected], 2004-01-14 18:44:53-05:00, [email protected]
[libata sata_svw] cleanup, better probing

* use fewer magic numbers
* probe all 4 ports, using standard SATA SCRs
* limit udma mask to 0x3f
* clean up PPC-specific procfs stuff

[email protected], 2004-01-14 18:34:48-05:00, [email protected]
[libata sata_sil] add pci id for Silicon Image 3512

[email protected], 2004-01-14 18:19:36-05:00, [email protected]
[libata sata_sil] cleaner, better version of errata workarounds

No longer unfairly punishes non-errata Seagate and Maxtor drives.

[email protected], 2004-01-06 04:26:01-05:00, [email protected]
[libata sata_sil] add support for adaptec 1210sa, 4-port sii 3114

[email protected], 2004-01-06 04:22:09-05:00, [email protected]
[libata sata_svr] fix DRV_NAME to reflect actual driver filename

[email protected], 2003-12-30 19:46:09-05:00, [email protected]
[libata sata_sil] unmask interrupts during initialization

Prudent in general, and needed for Adaptec BIOSes.