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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Schedule for adding pata to kernel?
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:34:25 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <442B1981.1050201@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3acb8eveg.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org>



James Cloos wrote:
>>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> writes:
> 
> JimC> but [I] never managed to determine the CONFIG that used ata_piix rather
> JimC> than the old ide drivers.  Each attempt left me with a kernel which
> JimC> could not mount its root....
> 
> Robert> If you build them into the kernel, it should just work..
> 
> Agreed.  It should.
> 
> But if I leave in CONFIG_IDE=y, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y I get root on
> 0x0302 rather than 0x0802 even when I also have CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y
> and CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX=y.
> 
> If the first two are not set then the kernel cannot find anything.
> 
> My understanding is that with Alan's patch everything should be
> using major 8, and that CONFIG_IDE is no longer required, yes?

You should be able to set CONFIG_IDE=n and have it work. That PCI ID is 
listed in the ata_piix device table so I should think it would work.. 
can you post the output?

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-29 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <5TDme-22E-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <5UAcC-3bd-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <5UH4o-4RJ-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <5UTfA-5uK-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-03-29 14:30         ` Schedule for adding pata to kernel? Robert Hancock
2006-03-29 14:36           ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-29 22:30           ` James Cloos
2006-03-29 23:34             ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2006-03-31  5:37               ` James Cloos
2006-03-30 11:20             ` Alan Cox
2006-03-20 15:38 Libata PATA for 2.6.16 Alan Cox
2006-03-23 19:03 ` Chris Boot
2006-03-26  9:53   ` Schedule for adding pata to kernel? Harald Dunkel
2006-03-26 17:26     ` Alan Cox
2006-03-27  6:15       ` James Cloos
     [not found]       ` <b637ec0b0604180444y7828ac5aobb349324f87201c2@mail.gmail.com>
2006-04-18 12:00         ` Alan Cox
2006-04-18 12:13           ` Tejun Heo
2006-04-20 22:48             ` Jeff Garzik
2006-04-21  1:12               ` Tejun Heo
2006-04-21  6:38                 ` Albert Lee

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