Bug#679545: IA64 (Itanium) Wheezy, doesn't detect DVD drive and NIC, patch proposal

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

reassign 679545 src:linux
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Hi Stephan,

Stephan Schreiber wrote:

> First problem, the build-in IDE/PATA host adapter of the chipset
> isn't detected

Let's start with this part.  Please file a new bug if any other issues
exist after it's fixed.

[...]
> The host adapter has the PCI-ID Intel, 24cb.

This adapter is handled by the libata piix driver
(drivers/ata/piix.c):

	/* Intel ICH4 (i845GV, i845E, i852, i855) UDMA 100 */
	{ 0x8086, 0x24CA, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, ich_pata_100 },
	{ 0x8086, 0x24CB, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, ich_pata_100 },

[...]
> Please could we include the ide/piix again as a module - just for
> the IA64 architecture?

I think we should not do that, if at all possible.  The old IDE
subsystem has a number of problems --- e.g., see

 http://www.mail-archive.com/stable@vger.kernel.org/msg15564.html

for a recent report.

Can you get a full kernel log ("dmesg" output) from booting with the
usual Debian kernel (a squeeze, wheezy, or experimental kernel will
do) on the installed system?

Thanks much,
Jonathan