Sven Köhler wrote:
IMHO, the patch should only include the PCI-Id or something like that - well, but the patch doesn't seem to be as simple as that. Do you have a link to the patch? or even a link to the discussion in the LKML?
The patched ahci.c is for example here: http://grivell.home.comcast.net/ahci.c Someone with nick "CodeRedLin" modified ahci.c with via patch... Instead of standard ahci.c which comes with 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 sources I used this modified one, and it really works! Suddenly both my sata drives are detected. hdparm -t /dev/sda (sdb) gives me very nice 65 MB/s, and that is while I'm doing raid1-resync! But he (author) says this patched ahci.c will probably not work with 2.6.16 :-( There is another patch for sata_via.c : http://web.ukonline.co.uk/paulrbarber/sata_via_20060221.c I did not test it, as that modified ahci.c worked for me. BTW, I'm not sure what is better to use: ahci.c, or sata_via.c? I have found a very good discussion about vt8521 & linux here: http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.aspx?catid=28&threadid=68455&STARTPAGE=1&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear (all in one line) Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
