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    Add driver for S-ATA-controller on Intel processors with South · 66d9dbec
    mushtaq khan authored
    
    Bridge, ICH-5, ICH-6 and ICH-7. 
    
    Implementation:
    
    1. Code is divided in to two files. All functions, which are
       controller specific are kept in "drivers/ata_piix.c" file and
       functions, which are not controller specific, are kept in
       "common/cmd_sata.c" file.
    
    2. Reading and Writing from the S-ATA drive is done using PIO method.
    
    3. Driver can be configured for 48-bit addressing by defining macro
       CONFIG_LBA48, if this macro is not defined driver uses the 28-bit
       addressing.
    
    4. S-ATA read function is hooked to the File system, commands like
       ext2ls and ext2load file can be used. This has been tested.
    
    5. U-Boot command "SATA_init" is added, which initializes the S-ATA
       controller and identifies the S-ATA drives connected to it.
    
    6. U-Boot command "sata" is added, which is used to read/write, print
       partition table and get info about the drives present. This I have
       implemented in same way as "ide" command is implemented in U-Boot.
    
    7. This driver is for S-ATA in native mode.
    
    8. This driver does not support the Native command queuing and
       Hot-plugging.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMushtaq Khan <mushtaq_k@procsys.com>
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