Re: Request kernel 2.6.18 ..

Avi Kivity
2006-09-21T09:37:52Z

Alan Cox wrote:
>
> Ar Mer, 2006-09-20 am 19:31 -0500, ysgrifennodd Ben Duncan:
> > Report: 2.6.18 has solved a lot of issues with
> > my 965 chipset Duo Core intel MB and has been
> > extremely stable ...
> >
> > Now, any idea on a timeline for driver for the Marvell IDE
> > controller ?
>
> Possibly never. Marvell don't currently seem to want to play. Now that
> might be for several reasons, one of which is that its someone elses
> chip rebadged. In that case someone has a chance of working out what it
> copies (eg which bits change when you boot with or without a master or
> slave on each channel is a good clue)
>
> The current prognosis however is that you and/or other marvell users are
> going to have to reverse-engineer the thing or just avoid boards using
> that chip.
>

I have such a board, and all-generic-ide appears to work (at least
enough to load the installer from CD, all the rest is SATA). Perhaps it
can be quirked so the parameter won't be necessary?

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