From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753605AbZI3AO4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:14:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753116AbZI3AO4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:14:56 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f212.google.com ([209.85.217.212]:51411 "EHLO mail-gx0-f212.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752613AbZI3AOz (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:14:55 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=nwPkltY0T4lybTET1AlDoP4y+GuUCgWwvz6w9cb0aqnub+YeG6zZMsCQMrUY/IqLGI pFot15MZbcR1KKI+KEIqFnITFxoXd4RMK2xJkYwrbNP4m/U8DOgt45gdfMRrfn9KK8kr DuDijRbE/Phy7KxWeDKwL3P+310QYDAKjgmL4= Message-ID: <4AC2A300.1040001@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:14:56 -0600 From: Robert Hancock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090922 Fedora/3.0-2.7.b4.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris M CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VIA VT6330 PCI-E Combo Controller not fully supported References: <4AC2604C.2060803@hardc0re.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <4AC2604C.2060803@hardc0re.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/29/2009 01:30 PM, Chris M wrote: > Hi everyone! I'll quickly introduce myself before I get to the crux of > my reason for posting to the mailing list. My name is Chris Merrett and > although I'm not a subscriber to the list (my mail server would likely > cry), I check a well-known archive quite regularly just to try and keep > on top of developments in the community. > > The reason I'm mailing is due to a partially-supported VIA chip present > on a small handful of motherboards currently on sale. I mailed the > maintainer (Jeff Garzik) to bring this to his attention quite some time > ago, but I'd imagine he's not found the time to reply to me yet which is > understandable. I figured that it'd be a good idea to make a post here > with the info I've gathered, so that people affected by this same issue > are aware that this particular chip isn't yet fully supported in the > kernel. > > The VT6330 is a combo controller chip that handles both Firewire and > PATA, and is present on my Asrock N7AD-SLI. I'm also aware of it being > present on other Asrock boards, and presumably other boards from > different manufacturers. The Firewire functionality is supported > perfectly and without issue, but unfortunately the PATA support is > lacking at the moment. VIA have some information on this at the > following URL: http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/peripherals/1394/vt6330/ > > From the info on the URL above, it appears that the PATA functionality > is identical to that of the VT6415 PATA controller, support for which > was added in 2.6.28. The mailing list post made regarding the patch that > was submitted can be found here: > http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0902.2/01428.html If it is similar enough to the existing controllers then you may be able to just add the device ID into pata_via in a similar fashion..