From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: libata AHCI support for Intel ICH6RW Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 08:10:50 -0400 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <41385F4A.90706@pobox.com> References: <1094184596.16175.3.camel@unicorn.rpratap.homelinux.org> <41385A18.5020103@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:14733 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269660AbUICMLF (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 08:11:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Brett Russ Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Brett Russ wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> Nothing new to add beyond that of >> http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html >> >> AHCI _should_ be going in any day now (well, after Labor Day >> vacation), so it will appear RSN. > > > Jeff, > > Where you say: > "Preliminary driver with full AHCI support now exists, and is being > integrated into libata mainline." > > I assumed you meant that it exists in your libata-2.6 kernel and was > going to be integrated into Linus' soon. If this is true, my report > deals with your kernel not mainline as in Ravi's case. "being integrated into libata mainline" means that it has not yet been integrated into the libata-2.6 queue. > If I don't have the kernel with full AHCI support, can I get and test > it? If I do have it, it seems like a bug in either BIOS, ata_piix, or > libata, no? In a few days. There isn't a public, working version of the AHCI driver yet. Jeff