Re: ata_piix sata support - patch for 2.4.27

[dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org>]

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.

Any reason you can't use a 2.6 kernel?