David Thompson <dthomps...@worcester.edu> writes:
> One problem that Mark Weaver and I encountered when intalling the GNU
> system on our Thinkpad X60s was that initrd couldn't boot from our SATA
> hard disks without passing additional kernel modules in the
> operating-system declaration. I think it would make a lot of sense to
> have these modules loaded by default, given the widespread use of SATA
> disks.
>
> I doubt that hardcoding the AHCI module names into linux-modules is the
> preferred way to do this, but I wanted to propose something simple to
> get the discussion started. :)
>
> Thoughts?
Another option would be to build AHCI support into the kernel. I'm
currently testing a proposed patch. I'm not sure whether this is better
or not; I'll leave it to others to decide :)
Mark
