However there are implementations for Xilinx FPGAs, like this OpenCores one: http://opencores.org/project,sata_controller_core http://opencores.org/project,sata

However there are implementations for Xilinx FPGAs, like this OpenCores one: http://opencores.org/project,sata_controller_core http://opencores.org/project,sata_controller_core I can imagine a couple of students with a lot of free time could get it ported over to the newer FPGA and start thinking about the kernel driver workup for it.