From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergei Shtylyov Subject: Re: ATA driver support for ICH9 Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:52:33 +0400 Message-ID: <46FE4A91.8030002@ru.mvista.com> References: <432010.67065.qm@web43143.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from homer.mvista.com ([63.81.120.155]:54503 "EHLO imap.sh.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755974AbXI2Mwv (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Sep 2007 08:52:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <432010.67065.qm@web43143.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: May Cheung Cc: jeff@garzik.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, harvey_hao@yahoo.com Hello. May Cheung wrote: > We're currently using 2.6.10 and tries to bring up an HP box which has ICH9. > The earliest libata patch available for ICH9 support seems to be 2.6.19. > The libata directory and file structures between 2.6.10 and 2.6.19 are quite > different. Right, there was no drivers/ata/ before 2.6.19-rc1... > Is there anyway we can add/port the ICH9 support to 2.6.10? Why not just modify drivers/ide/pci/piix.c? > Please advise! MBR, Sergei