From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: "J. Ryan Earl" <heretic@clanhk.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Status of the sata_sil driver for the VT8237
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 22:16:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <406643A8.2050808@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4066342B.4080105@clanhk.org>
J. Ryan Earl wrote:
> I was wondering, what is the state of the sata_sil driver for the VIA
> VT8237 southbridge (ie the one used commonly on their K8T
> motherboards). Is this still beta? Any known problems with it?
Well prior to the most recent version, calling it "beta" was putting it
kindly. I would call it broken :) which was why it was marked with
CONFIG_BROKEN...
As of the most recent 2.6.5-rc2-bk snapshots, libata and sata_sil should
be pretty happy with each other.
Some of the VIA problems were actually platform-related. "noapic",
"nomce", turning -on- local APIC support, and a few other workarounds
have been found for these.
If you're on x86-64, make sure you have the latest BIOS version, too.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-28 3:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-28 2:10 Status of the sata_sil driver for the VT8237 J. Ryan Earl
2004-03-28 3:16 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-03-28 3:47 ` J. Ryan Earl
2004-03-28 7:37 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-28 7:48 ` J. Ryan Earl
2004-03-28 20:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 20:40 ` J. Ryan Earl
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