From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751271AbWC2Xej (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:34:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751278AbWC2Xej (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:34:39 -0500 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:61626 "EHLO pd2mo3so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751271AbWC2Xei (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:34:38 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:34:25 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: Schedule for adding pata to kernel? In-reply-to: To: James Cloos Cc: linux-kernel Message-id: <442B1981.1050201@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <5SuEq-6ut-39@gated-at.bofh.it> <5TDme-22E-27@gated-at.bofh.it> <5UAcC-3bd-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <5UH4o-4RJ-27@gated-at.bofh.it> <5UTfA-5uK-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <442A9A1C.1020004@shaw.ca> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org James Cloos wrote: >>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Hancock 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?