Jay Cliburn wrote:
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.
Allow me to extend a personal thank you to Alan Cox, who pushed this patch into
2.6.18-rc7. Many owners of new VIA-based mainboards will be delighted to be
able to boot FC6 without driver disks and kernel patching gyrations.
Thanks again,
Jay
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