From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: mgabriel@ecology.uni-kiel.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vt6410 in kernel 2.6
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 16:12:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4012DFC7.4040709@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401240925.39986.mgabriel@ecology.uni-kiel.de>
Mike Gabriel wrote:
> hi jeff,
>
>
>>>>>is there any chance of upcoming support for the vt6410 ide/raid chipset
>>>>>in the 2.6.x kernel? there has been an attempt by via itself, but it
>>>>>only suits redhat 7.2 kernels and systems, thus it is highly specific.
>>>>>is there any1 who is working on that?
>>
>>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_GENERIC or CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA should do it.
>>
>
>
> oh, i thought these options were for SATA only. what i need is the ide-part of
> the controller. is this support by these options, as well? i will try as soon
> as possible. i use a debian-backports kernel which for now always kills the
> system during kernel-image-boot. as i use the board in one of our servers, i
> cannot really fiddle around with it to much. thanks for your info.
My apologies. The PATA part is handled by CONFIG_IDE, though
drivers/ide/pci/via82cxxx.c may need another PCI id or two. 'lspci -n'
will retrieve these ids.
Jeff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-24 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-22 21:38 vt6410 in kernel 2.6 Mike Gabriel
2004-01-23 23:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-23 23:47 ` Mike Gabriel
2004-01-23 23:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-24 8:25 ` Mike Gabriel
2004-01-24 21:12 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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