On 10/6/05, dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 17:26 -0400, Larry Lindsey wrote: > > I've produced a patch against the Debian 2.4.27 sources, which adds > > ata_piix support (ICH6, ICH7). A lot of Dell machines use this > > chipset. Its pretty klugey, but I hope its useful. > > > > http://www.math.gatech.edu/~lindsey/libata-piix-2.4.27.patch.tar.bz2 > > http://www.math.gatech.edu/~lindsey/libata-piix-2.4.27.patch.deb > > > > Thanks Larry. > > Your best bet for getting your changes into the Debian kernel is get > these patches accepted in the upstream 2.4 tree; we can then attempt to > backport it to the 2.4.27 tree (assuming we're still maintaining one). > I don't know how open they are for new features though.
Cool. How would I go about doing that? Or... by upstream do you mean the actual kernel maintainers? > Any reason you can't use a 2.6 kernel? I work for a lab that produces some kernel-module-level software that requires a kernel patched with adeos and rtai. Taken all together, these limit us to the 2.4.27 kernel. The problem we had to overcome is that many of our target audience use certain Dell desktops, which boot from SATA drives on these particular Intel chipsets, but the driver in the 2.4.27 kernel doesn't work for these. It also seems that the most recent supported 2.4 kernel in debian-testing is a 2.4.27, which is another reason to go with that version. So this patch is pretty much targeted at people in a similar situation -- where, for whatever reason, they might be stuck on a 2.4.27 kernel, but also need to support a more-or-less universal configuration. Its actually based on a patch against 2.4.27 by Jeff Garzik, who seems to maintain the SATA code in the vanilla kernel, and the 2.4.31 SATA driver source, which is the first version on the 2.4 line, as far as I can tell through experimentation, that actually works with the Dell machines. In any case, there aren't any new features here over the existing vanilla code base.
