Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Jun 2008 04:48:11 -0400 (EDT) | From | Gerhard Mack <> | Subject | Re: Who can backport the AHCI driver to older kernels |
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On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Rainer Koenig wrote:
> Hi Mikael, > > 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. >
Why not just create custom boot cds with the newer kernel for each distro? It seems like less work.
Gerhard
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