KernelTrap: Improving The Promise SX4 Driver Jan 8, 2007, 10 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (3463 reads)
"Jeff Garzik noted that the hardware documentation for the Promise SX4 chipset is being opened up and therefore the sata_sx4 driver is a good candidate for improvements, 'I would like to take this opportunity to point hackers looking for a project at this hardware. The Promise SX4 is pretty neat, and it needs more attention than I can give, to reach its full potential.' He notes that it is an older chipset that's probably not sold anymore, that the ATA programming interface is similar to that in the sata_promise driver, and that it contains a fully programmable on board DIMM and on board RAID5 XOR..."
