On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 10:01 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Re your blog post. > > > The libata transition for PATA (IDE) controller drivers. After some > > review we realised that this only affects PC hardware at the moment, so > > only users of the i386 or amd64 architectures will see the upgrade > > prompts. Thanks to everyone who tested and reported bugs in the > > experimental packages. > > I don't think that can be true. I'm pretty certain that it will at least > also affect sparc where I currently use the IDE driver (cmd64x), which I > would expect to get replaced with its PATA equivalent (pata_cmd64x). PATA drivers of either flavour are mostly selected on a per-architecture basis, and no change has been made to non-x86. If people are willing to test on the non-x86 architectures then we may have a chance to change them over as well. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.
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