Re: Who can backport the AHCI driver to older kernels

[Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>]

Rainer Koenig wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I need help and/or advice on the following problem:
> 
> New mainboard platfrom with latest chipset from a chipset vendor that 
> can't do the job that we are asking for. The chipset (especially the
> SATA controller is supported in Kernel 2.6.24 and later. 
> 
> The target market for those boards is using old fashioned distributions 
> like CentOS, Debian, Fedora 8 openSUSE 10 and so on. So the gap is that 
> the latest driver from 2.6.24 is not yet in those distributions. The 
> impact of this is that the customer in the target market can't use the
> mainboards to run actual Linux distributions on them.
> 
> So there is a need ot backport e.g. the AHCI driver from 2.6.24 to 
> 2.6.16 or 2.6.18. Doing a diff on the sources makes me think this is a 
> sort of "mission impossible" since it sureley isn't just the ahci code
> that changed but also a lot in the kernel infrastructure meanwhile.
> 
> So what options do we have to help the customer? Changing to 2.6.24 
> kernel is not an option due to the customer. So it looks like the 
> only way to "solve" this is a backport, but then we come to "who can
> do this?". 
..

I regularly do backports of libata stuff for various clients.
Contact me directly if you feel you really need this service.

Cheers
-- 
Mark Lord
Real-Time Remedies Inc.
mlord@pobox.com