maintenence sata_sis

[Uwe Koziolek <uwe.koziolek@gmx.net>]

Hello Jeff,

currently it exists 3 variants to support the SiS182 Chipset
- use SiS182 with the code from SiS180, only add the PCI-ID to the driver
- the source code from OSDL
- the source code from www.sis.com
Actually i have no SiS board available. So i have no chance to maintain
the driver.

regards
Uwe Koziolek



Arnaud Patard wrote:

>Hi,
>
>
>I got recently a motherboard shipped with the SATA SIS 182 chipset. This
>chipset is not supported by the kernel. I tried to just add the PCI IDS
>in the supported chipset list as suggested on some mails in this
>list but it didn't work for the hard drive connected on the second sata port.
>
>I found that this has been reported on
>http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4192. Unfortunately the patch
>didn't apply to the recents kernel. So, I've written a new minimal patch that
>add support for this chipset. 
>
>It works well on the machine I have with a 2.6.12.5 kernel but I was not
>able to test it on SIS 180/181 chipset (I don't have the hardware). 
>
>imho having support for this chipset in the kernel could be usefull, so
>any feedback/comments are welcome. 
>
>Regards,
>Arnaud Patard
>
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