On 09/22/2017 10:17 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> You don't need access to hardware. You can test the kernel just fine >> on Aranym. All you need is a simple root filesystem and an initrd >> which I can provide. In fact, you can just use the kernel and initrd >> from the debian-installer distribution: > > Correct. > And the Falcon IDE driver still works fine when not a module...
It does? That would be interesting as a workaround for the time being. >>> Last I heard, the IDE driver/libata conversion plan had been NAK'd. Has >>> the IDE subsystem maintainer changed his mind? >> >> Why it should it be NAK'd? The IDE/ATA subsystem maintainers want to >> get all the drivers ported over to libata so they can eventually >> get rid of the old IDE stack. > > Getting rid of the old IDE stack was NAKed (rightfully), due to drivers/ata/ > not providing the same level of hardware support as drivers/ide/. > Porting drivers over to drivers/ata/ is OK (and wanted), of course. Well, of course, I'm not for removing the old drivers before the pata drivers have reached feature equality. But, I would very much like to encourage the porting and I will try to help as soon as I am done with all changes to debian-installer and openjdk that I still have in my current queue. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
