From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Uwe Koziolek Subject: maintenence sata_sis Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:01:12 +0200 Message-ID: <4309A268.8090203@gmx.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from zeus1.kernel.org ([204.152.191.4]:63367 "EHLO zeus1.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751351AbVHVWSo (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:18:44 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by zeus1.kernel.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id j7MA2Mfq032260 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 03:02:23 -0700 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Arnaud Patard , Rainer.Koenig@fujitsu-siemens.com 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 > > >