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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Jon Wikne <wikne@cheetah.uio.no>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: piix.c - previously available patch not implemented
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 21:51:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703052151.29312.bzolnier@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45EC654F.7030209@cheetah.uio.no>


Hi,

On Monday 05 March 2007, Jon Wikne wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> Last year, around 2.6.16.*, there was a patch around that helped
> me get the PIIX driver to run with the Intel 82801FBM (ICH6M) chip
> on my Toshiba Tecra A3 laptop.
> 
> Now, compiling the 2.6.21_rc2 kernel on this machine, to my
> astonishment I find that this patch has still not reached the
> mainstream kernel.
> 
> I do not know whether there might be a good reason for this,
> but this patch is essential for me, and most likely others as
> well. I include the patch that works for me below, ported and
> relative to piix.c version 0.46 taken from the 2.6.21_rc2.

[ ... ]

> +#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_ICH6_5      0x2653

[ ... ]

This is SATA controller and has always been handled by ata_piix driver.
It is considered superior over piix for SATA hardware. [ at least ATM :-P ]

PS please _always_ cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org on Linux ATA issues

Thanks,
Bart

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-05 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-05 18:45 piix.c - previously available patch not implemented Jon Wikne
2007-03-05 20:31 ` Mark Lord
2007-03-05 20:51 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]

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