From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] ahci: Add support for Promise PDC42819 Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:57:10 +0100 Message-ID: <20080902145710.2034690d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <65a6ef750809020403i52228319u9e3197e4062941bc@mail.gmail.com> <48BD2136.1020101@garzik.org> <20080902125310.729b0997@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <48BD2B37.6060000@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:34291 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751422AbYIBN6K (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:58:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48BD2B37.6060000@garzik.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Mark Nelson , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Mikael Pettersson , linux-scsi > Refresh my memory... what is the problem with loading pata_marvell first? The fact its almost impossible to do with a distribution kernel. eg you can't make it work with Fedora (see the Fedora bugs assigned to you) If pata_marvell should be driving these chips please remove the entries from the ahci.c driver as I asked before. If ahci.c should be driving them then we need the documentation for whatever extension they use driving the ports via AHCI. Clearly there is one as its possible under Windows. > AFAICS, if you load pata_marvell before ahci, it will grab the PATA > disks and the PCI device itself. If you have a degree in initrd-foo Alan