Re: [Heikki Vatiainen <hessu@cs.tut.fi>] HPT366 UDMA support for boot disks, here is what I did
At 09:35 PM 1999-10-25 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:27:13PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
>> I think its a mistake to not to provide UDMA/66 support on the boot disks
>> With my Abit HPT366 controller card, if i dont patch the kernel with the
>> uniform ide patch then the machines hangs in the middle of the boot. I
>> assume this occurs to motherboards with the controller built in as well.
>> The patch also provides support to the promise ATA/66 card as well.
>> Without ATA/66 support in the kernel debian potato may be uninstallable on
>> most new machines. (assuming new machines will come with ata/66 support)
>
>Well it's too risky for us to integrate patches of this sort which may
>destablise other IDE chipsets. The best we can do is to provide an
>alternative boot disk with the patch applied.
AFAIK this patch is a backport of the Uniform IDE driver in 2.3.x.
>> Maybe the kenrel guys will fix this by integrating it themselves.
>
>I certainly hope that they do.
2.4 should be ready on Xmas. I don't think that Uniform IDE patch get on
the 2.2.x.
Ugo Enrico Albarello López de Mesa
ugo.albarello@jol.net.co
A proud Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 User.
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