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

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Date:	Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:36:51 +0200
From:	Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@...-owl.de>
To:	Rainer Koenig <Rainer.Koenig@...itsu-siemens.com>
Cc:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Who can backport the AHCI driver to older kernels

On Wed, 2008-06-04 06:50:12 +0200, Rainer Koenig <Rainer.Koenig@...itsu-siemens.com> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 14:07 schrieb Mikael Pettersson:
> > Redhat seems to regularly backport the entire libata layer
> > to at least 2.6.18 (RHEL5) and maybe also 2.6.9 (RHEL4).
> 
> Yes indeed we get perfect support from both Red Hat and SUSE for their 
> enterprise level distribution. I already got a driver kit for the 
> SLES10 kernel. The problem is that the targeted market is not willing
> to use enterprise level (which means spend money for subscription) 
> distros. They go for the "free" (as in free beer) distros and suffer 
> from missing drivers. 

Erm... Maybe you'd install a newer version of eg. Debian. At least
here, I have:

jbglaw@...aptop:~$ uname -a
Linux jblaptop 2.6.25-2-686 #1 SMP Tue May 27 15:38:35 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
jbglaw@...aptop:~$

MfG, JBG

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