From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KRF9N-0001KI-Mk for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:44:09 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRF9M-0001KD-TU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:44:08 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRF9K-0001K1-GF for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:44:07 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45988 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRF9K-0001Jy-Ad for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:44:06 -0400 Received: from smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.23]:4522) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KRF9I-0003rM-So for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:44:06 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (249-174.surfsnel.dsl.internl.net [145.99.174.249]) by smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m77Ni01n065464 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2008 01:44:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mgerards@xs4all.nl) From: Marco Gerards To: The development of GRUB Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:46:52 +0200 Message-ID: <87myjoqtg3.fsf@xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 Subject: ATA update X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:44:09 -0000 Hi, One minute ago I committed a patch to improve ATA support. The new stuff: - It isn't very slow anymore - It even works for Robert ;-) - It works on QEmu - The error handling significantly improved - Added timeouts, so ata.mod does not endlessly wait for nothing - Detected controllers are all actually used - More random fixes I hope that this encourages people to test ATA support again (at your own risk) and fix things that are still broken. An overview of which hardware (chipsets) do and do not work will be very nice to have! The next thing I will do now is split up ATAPI support. I have some code in that direction already, so you might not want to touch that now. -- Marco