> did anyone know if this controller is supported by the sata driver? > > i cant see anywhere in sdata.c and sdiahci.c. . . i guess it isnt supported > at all, so there is no option to fill some "silly" pci-id somewhere to get it > going. > > The new 9grid.es server has this controller, it would be a pitty not being > able to run plan9 on it and be stuck to the 256M-RAM server :( > > (output of lspci -v under the linux the server comes with) > > 00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 AHCI/SATA 4-Port > Controller (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO]) > Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251 AHCI/SATA 4-Port Controller > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 509 > I/O ports at ec00 [size=8]
i didn't add support because i didn't have any test hardware. please try the untested version at http://www.quanstro.net/sdiahci.c. it should report the via as an unk 4-port hba. "unk" means that there is no special magic required. do you need a matching driver for 9load? - erik
