From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
To: Rainer Koenig <Rainer.Koenig@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Who can backport the AHCI driver to older kernels
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:52:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200806031352.31940.elendil@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200806031247.42046.Rainer.Koenig@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Rainer Koenig wrote:
> New mainboard platfrom with latest chipset from a chipset vendor that
> can't do the job that we are asking for. The chipset (especially the
> SATA controller is supported in Kernel 2.6.24 and later.
>
> The target market for those boards is using old fashioned distributions
> like CentOS, Debian, Fedora 8 openSUSE 10 and so on. So the gap is that
> the latest driver from 2.6.24 is not yet in those distributions.
Debian will offer the option to install a system using 2.6.24 with its
next update for Etch (stable). That point release is expected within the
next few weeks.
Cheers,
FJP
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-03 11:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-03 10:47 Who can backport the AHCI driver to older kernels Rainer Koenig
2008-06-03 11:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-06-04 4:47 ` Rainer Koenig
2008-06-04 8:52 ` Nicolas Mailhot
2008-06-03 11:52 ` Frans Pop [this message]
2008-06-03 12:07 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-06-04 4:50 ` Rainer Koenig
2008-06-04 8:02 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-06-04 8:48 ` Gerhard Mack
2008-06-04 19:36 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2008-06-03 14:02 ` Mark Lord
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