I've committed them. If anyone believes they will cause harm, please let me know or remove.
-Brian Bernard Li wrote: >The SCSI/SATA patches are cruft from when I was trying to get the kernel >to load all the drivers to support a SATA drive. I am not sure if you >want to apply them or not. At any rate, you probably want to include >them as modules rather than compiled into the kernel. > >Cheers, > >Bernard > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Erich Focht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 10:40 >>To: Brian Elliott Finley >>Cc: sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Bernard Li >>Subject: Re: [Sisuite-devel] 2.6.10 kernels and SATA support >> >>On Tuesday 12 July 2005 19:07, Brian Elliott Finley wrote: >> >> >>>>make.d/kernel.rul: >>>>- updated ia64 and x86_64 to 2.6.10 kernels >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Applied. >>> >>> >>Great, thanks. >> >> >> >>>>patches/ >>>>- moved the i386 SATA patches: >>>> >>>> cd patches >>>> mv linux.i386.70libata.patch >>>> >>>> >>linux.i386,x86_64,ia64.70libata.patch >> >> >>>> mv linux.i386.80sata_sil.patch >>>> >>>> >>linux.i386,x86_64,ia64.80sata_sil.patch >> >> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Don't see those patches in svn trunk. >>> >>> >>Oh, so they come from Bernard's repository? I attach them to >>this email. >> >> >> >>>>- updated kernel config files to support SATA (this is >>>> >>>> >>probably not too >> >> >>>> useful on ia64, but absolutely necessary on i386 and >>>> >>>> >>x86_64). Compresse >> >> >>>> config files are attached. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Questions on the x86 config file (by the way, I prefer >>> >>> >>patches, as I can >> >> >>>readily see the difference. With whole files like this, I >>> >>> >>have to do >> >> >>>diffs on my own): >>> >>>linux.i386.config: >>> >>> Is there a reason to have CONFIG_SCSI=y, >>> >>> >>CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y, and >> >> >>> CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX=y with "=y" instead of "=m"? >>> >>> >> >> >>> < # Mon Mar 28 14:28:20 2005 >>> --- >>> > # Fri Jul 8 14:12:36 2005 >>> 320c320 >>> < CONFIG_SCSI=m >>> --- >>> > CONFIG_SCSI=y >>> >>> >>No idea why this changed. >> >> >> >>> 374c374,386 >>> < # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA is not set >>> --- >>> > CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y >>> >>> >>This is needed for revealing all SATA drivers. Don't think >>there is a "M" >>option here, but I might be wrong. >> >> >> >>> 403c415 >>> < CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX=m >>> --- >>> > CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX=y >>> >>> >>Use "M", please. Again I have no idea how it slipped in. >> >>Thanks, >>best regards, >>Erich >> >>PS: yes, I will send diffs in future. >> >> >> >> > > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest in dual core and dual graphics technology at this free one hour event hosted by HP, AMD, and NVIDIA. To register visit http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar _______________________________________________ Sisuite-devel mailing list Sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
