Re: Who can backport the AHCI driver to older kernels

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Wed, 2008-06-04 06:50:12 +0200, Rainer Koenig <Rainer.Koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 14:07 schrieb Mikael Pettersson:
> > Redhat seems to regularly backport the entire libata layer
> > to at least 2.6.18 (RHEL5) and maybe also 2.6.9 (RHEL4).
> 
> Yes indeed we get perfect support from both Red Hat and SUSE for their 
> enterprise level distribution. I already got a driver kit for the 
> SLES10 kernel. The problem is that the targeted market is not willing
> to use enterprise level (which means spend money for subscription) 
> distros. They go for the "free" (as in free beer) distros and suffer 
> from missing drivers. 

Erm... Maybe you'd install a newer version of eg. Debian. At least
here, I have:

jbglaw@jblaptop:~$ uname -a
Linux jblaptop 2.6.25-2-686 #1 SMP Tue May 27 15:38:35 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
jbglaw@jblaptop:~$

MfG, JBG

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