[driver-discuss] Project Proposal: SATA AHCI HBA driver enhancement

[Javen Wu]

Count me in!
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Javen

Dachuan Fir Qin wrote:

> *Project Proposal: SATA AHCI HBA driver enhancement*
>
> This project is aiming at supporting more ahci-compliant chipsets and 
> adding more features to ahci driver.
>
>The webpage of AHCI project for opensolaris is at:
>http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/device_drivers/projects/AHCI/
>
>
> *A Short Description
> -------------------
> *AHCI specification is defined by INTEL and describes the 
> register-level interface implementation for a Host Controller to 
> conform to Serial ATA 1.0 and Serial ATA II. The specification 
> includes a description of the hardware/software interface between 
> system software and the host controller hardware.
>
> At the moment, the first phase of ahci driver has been putback into 
> nevada build 56, and it supports INTEL ICH6 and VIA VT8251 controller. 
> Currently, Solaris ahci driver conforms to AHCI 1.0 specification and 
> supports PIO and DMA protocols, Hot Plug, cfgadm, 64-bit addressing, 
> Intel ICH6 and VIA vt8251 chipsets.
>     
> *Goal
> ----
> *The project is planning to support the following features in the future.
>
>     * Supporting more AHCI compatible chipsets
>     * ATAPI
>     * Port Multiplier
>     * MSI Interrupt
>     * Power Management
>     * NCQ
>
> Welcome to join the project, and welcome all kinds of comments and 
> suggestions.
> Thanks in advance...
>
>Regards
>Fir Qin
>
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