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?
next prev parent 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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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
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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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