From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomasz Chmielewski Subject: sata_via and VT6421 PATA support? Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:45:58 +0100 Message-ID: <45472966.80209@wpkg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.syneticon.net ([213.239.212.131]:41899 "EHLO mail2.syneticon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423096AbWJaKqd (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:46:33 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.syneticon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3120F4D50D for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:46:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail2.syneticon.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (linux [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31111-15 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:46:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from postfix1.syneticon.net (postfix1.syneticon.net [192.168.112.6]) by mail2.syneticon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:46:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (filter1.syneticon.net [192.168.113.3]) by postfix1.syneticon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 491B394EF for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:46:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from postfix1.syneticon.net ([192.168.113.4]) by localhost (192.168.113.3 [192.168.113.3]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with ESMTP id it+xt7bplTSk for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:45:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.10.145] (xdsl-81-173-189-226.netcologne.de [81.173.189.226]) by postfix1.syneticon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:45:59 +0100 (CET) Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Almost a year ago, Jeff Garzik posted a patch from VIA which adds support for PATA in VT6421 (sata_via driver): http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/11/203 There was a very brief discussion about it, but nothing more. There were some major changes between 2.6.17 and 2.6.18: -#define DRV_VERSION "1.1" +#define DRV_VERSION "2.0" and VIA's patch no longer applies (however, it looks it shouldn't be that hard to correct it). What's the status of sata_via and VT6421 PATA support? -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org