Re: Schedule for adding pata to kernel?

From: James Cloos
Date: Mon Mar 27 2006 - 01:13:26 EST


>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Alan> The final hard bit will be the PIIX/ICH driver as this is a major update
Alan> to a critical driver used by very many SATA people rather than a new
Alan> driver, so has the highest risk of breaking stuff.

Incidently, on that front, what is the magic to make it work?

I've not yet tried with 2.6.16 final, but I didn't have any luck with
earlier versions.

I have a:

,----[lspci]
| 00:1f.1 0101: 8086:244a (rev 03)
| 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BAM IDE U100 (rev 03)
`----

but never managed to determine the CONFIG that used ata_piix rather
than the old ide drivers. Each attempt left me with a kernel which
could not mount its root....

-JimC
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