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Re: PATA transition



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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