Messages in this thread | | | From | Frans Pop <> | Subject | Re: Who can backport the AHCI driver to older kernels | Date | Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:52:30 +0200 |
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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.
Cheers, FJP
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