Kernel 2.6.17.12 (latest stable) was released today with support (almost) for
the PATA side of the VIA 8237A Southbridge. Unfortunately, the patch for the
SATA side -- currently in -mm since the end of July -- didn't make it. It
probably won't enter the mainstream until 2.6.19, when the change to the new
libata hierarchy is scheduled to occur.
May I please ask that it be added to FC devel until it's released upstream?
It's exceedingly simple and it works: I've been manually patching Fedora kernels
for over a month now to boot from a SATA drive attached to an Asus M2V mainboard.
If you guys don't do this sort of thing on request, just say so.
Thanks,
Jay
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diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sata_via.c b/drivers/scsi/sata_via.c
index 03baec2..d939fc8 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sata_via.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sata_via.c
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ static u32 svia_scr_read (struct ata_por
static void svia_scr_write (struct ata_port *ap, unsigned int sc_reg, u32 val);
static const struct pci_device_id svia_pci_tbl[] = {
+ { 0x1106, 0x0591, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, vt6420 },
{ 0x1106, 0x3149, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, vt6420 },
{ 0x1106, 0x3249, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, vt6421 },
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