Bug 145690

Summary:	gentoo-sources-2.6.17-r7 doesn't support Via VT8237A attached disks
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Chris Mayo <aklhfex>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Daniel Drake (RETIRED) <dsd>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kernel
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	VT8237A_PATA.patch VT8237A_PCI_ID.patch VT8237A_SATA.patch

Description Chris Mayo 2006-08-31 02:44:13 UTC

The Via VT8237A controller (e.g. Asrock 775Dual-VSTA, Asus M2V) is not supported in gentoo-sources-2.6.17-r7 (unfortunately the 2006.1 livecds too). It's only recently made it into the kernel.org trees:

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a7dec1e0dbb9e8e032b56a62d07ab6ac009109d3
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/smurf/linux-trees.git;a=commit;h=08be09b7c38a71b1677285c10a08725833ff9b95

Attached are some patches I made (and am writing this using!) against gentoo-sources.

Comment 1 Chris Mayo 2006-08-31 02:44:47 UTC

Created attachment 95539 [details, diff]
VT8237A_PATA.patch

Comment 2 Chris Mayo 2006-08-31 02:45:08 UTC

Created attachment 95540 [details, diff]
VT8237A_PCI_ID.patch

Comment 3 Chris Mayo 2006-08-31 02:45:50 UTC

Created attachment 95541 [details, diff]
VT8237A_SATA.patch

Comment 4 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-09-09 19:36:58 UTC

Fixed in gentoo-sources-2.6.17-r8 (genpatches-2.6.17-10). Thanks for the patches.