linux-kernel - Re: Who can backport the AHCI driver to older kernels

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Message-ID: <18501.13296.224958.291840@harpo.it.uu.se>
Date:	Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:07:12 +0200
From:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
To:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
Cc:	Rainer Koenig <Rainer.Koenig@...itsu-siemens.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Who can backport the AHCI driver to older kernels

Frans Pop writes:
 > Rainer Koenig wrote:
 > > New mainboard platfrom with latest chipset from a chipset vendor that
 > > can't do the job that we are asking for. The chipset (especially the
 > > SATA controller is supported in Kernel 2.6.24 and later.
 > > 
 > > The target market for those boards is using old fashioned distributions
 > > like CentOS, Debian, Fedora 8 openSUSE 10 and so on. So the gap is that
 > > the latest driver from 2.6.24 is not yet in those distributions.
 > 
 > Debian will offer the option to install a system using 2.6.24 with its 
 > next update for Etch (stable). That point release is expected within the 
 > next few weeks.

Redhat seems to regularly backport the entire libata layer
to at least 2.6.18 (RHEL5) and maybe also 2.6.9 (RHEL4).
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