From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262015AbUAXVNH (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jan 2004 16:13:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262123AbUAXVNH (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jan 2004 16:13:07 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:29924 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262015AbUAXVMv (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jan 2004 16:12:51 -0500 Message-ID: <4012DFC7.4040709@pobox.com> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 16:12:39 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mgabriel@ecology.uni-kiel.de CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: vt6410 in kernel 2.6 References: <200401222238.09157.mgabriel@ecology.uni-kiel.de> <200401240047.19261.mgabriel@ecology.uni-kiel.de> <4011B4C8.50908@pobox.com> <200401240925.39986.mgabriel@ecology.uni-kiel.de> In-Reply-To: <200401240925.39986.mgabriel@ecology.uni-kiel.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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