final patch for pata disks on sata promise controller

[Jim Bevier]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Bevier" <jim at jbsys.com>
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" 
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Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: patches for pata disks on sata promise controller


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dave Jones" <davej at redhat.com>
> To: "James C. Bevier" <jbevier at jbsys.com>
> Cc: <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>; <jgarzik at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 5:18 PM
> Subject: Re: patches for pata disks on sata promise controller
>
>
>> On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:59:14PM -0700, James C. Bevier wrote:
>> > Since the 2.4 kernel, I have had to patch sata_promise.c and libata.c 
>> > to
>> > recognize pata disks.  When the kernel was updated to 2.6.19, all of 
>> > the
>> > patches were discarded.
>>
>> The 2.6.19 rebase is incomplete. This is why it isn't in updates-testing
>> yet.
>> Pretty much all the stuff that had conflicts get commented out for the
>> time being.
>>
>> > Why were these patches not integrated upstream
>> > over the last two years?
>>
>> I'll leave Jeff to answer that one.  I know I'm tired of carrying it too.
>>
>> > Now the code has been redesigned by someone
>> > (Jeff?) and the patches invalidated.  Here is a first pass at the
>> > patches for the 2.6.19 and beyond kernels.  Dave, could you review the
>> > patch and incorporate them into the next kernel rev?  They seem to work
>> > for me, but they needed to be tested with a system that has sata disks
>> > to make sure I did not screw them up.  Here is the patch and the diffs
>> > for the spec file.
>>
>> Jeff, care to eyeball this?
>> (Same diff James sent, but with some indentation fixes)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>> old patch deleted.................
>>
>
> Dave,
>
> Here is a revised patch for using pata drives on the sata_promise 2037x
> controller.  I took out some of the patch that was not getting executed.
> This patch was tested with the 2909 kernel.  I re-enabled the patch2200 
> code
> in the spec file to use this new patch.  I sure would like to see this in
> the next release of the kernel so it can be widely tested.  This is a
> replacement for the pre 2.6.19 patch that no longer works.  It has been 
> two
> years for the sata_promise patch, so you would think it should be main
> stream by now.
>
> Jim
>
Dave,

I found a couple of e-mails on the web from jeff at garzik.org signing off on 
sata_promise patches to gentoo users.  It is slightly modified from the 
patch that I sent to you last week.  I merged my mods with those and now 
have "the last" patch.  This patch should allow pata disks on models 2037x 
and 2057x sata promise controllers.  This should allow the same functionally 
as pre 2.6.19 kernels.  I have tested it on the 2911 kernel.  I am sorry 
Jeff chose to not include the gentoo patch in the current fedora libata 
releases.  I have credited the gentoo people who generated the patch in the 
attached patch.  How about including it in the next kernel release?

Jim
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