please add support for the VT8251

please add support for the VT8251

[Ronan]

Hi.

I don't like to badger open-source developers, but an email from Jeff
Garzik (archived at [1]) suggests that it may be worth doing so in my
particular situation.

  [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=114290600200440&w=2

My situation is this: I recently purchased a PC which contains a VIA
VT8251 southbridge.  As far as I can see, this is not currently supported
by Linux, so it seems that (as I have insufficient knowledge to write
the code myself) I have no option but to wait until it is.  Therefore,
I would like to request that the Linux IDE developers implement support
for this chipset.

Regards,

Ronan.

Re: please add support for the VT8251

[Tejun Heo]

Ronan wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I don't like to badger open-source developers, but an email from Jeff
> Garzik (archived at [1]) suggests that it may be worth doing so in my
> particular situation.
> 
>   [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=114290600200440&w=2
> 
> My situation is this: I recently purchased a PC which contains a VIA
> VT8251 southbridge.  As far as I can see, this is not currently supported
> by Linux, so it seems that (as I have insufficient knowledge to write
> the code myself) I have no option but to wait until it is.  Therefore,
> I would like to request that the Linux IDE developers implement support
> for this chipset.

Already went into mainline.  v2.6.18-rc3 already includes it.  If you're 
uncomfortable with -rc series, libata-tj-stable patch also has it.

http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Libata-tj-stable
http://home-tj.org/files/libata-tj-stable/libata-tj-2.6.17.4-20060710.tar.bz2

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tejun