libata update
A ton of SATA work in the past few weeks, but not a lot terribly new in this update. The update is mainly to rediff against the latest 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. Note that this does not include experimental patches. Notably absent are
* lba48 (large transfer) requests
* splitting up Promise driver into sata_promise (tx2/tx4) and sata_sx4 (sx4) drivers.
* adding better flush-cache / writeback caching support
The above are all experimental patches I have locally.
Finally, per user requests, I have started posting the associated changelog as well.
BK repositories:
http://gkernel.bkbits.net/libata-2.[46]
2.6.x patch and changelog:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.6.5-rc3-libata1.patch.bz2 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.6.5-rc3-libata1.log
2.4.x patch and changelog:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.4.26-rc1-libata2.patch.bz2 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.4.26-rc1-libata2.log
Drivers for SATA-2 controllers have been in development, and should be making their appearance soon.