Hi, Vincent and others, On Oct 19 2009, Vincent Sanders wrote: > IDE to libata decision > ---------------------- > > Debian will perform this transition using the udev packages in a > similar way to Ubuntu. The Ubuntu developers have offered their > assistance with this transition.
There are some blocking bugs that still need to be worked on, really. For instance, I have here a pdc controller whose ide driver works flawlessly, but for which the corresponding libata driver is not really ready for prime time. http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/20/211 http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/20/311 http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/20/298 http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/20/319 http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/23/611 http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/1/53 http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/11/452 The Linux IDE people are amazingly great, but some bugs are still there. This one persists, in particular. :-( It's very visible with Ubuntu's kernel for many releases (since it uses libata). The way that I'm working with that computer is that I'm hand-compiling my own kernels, for the moment, but I'm not always there to support my parents using it and the distribution kernels don't work satisfactorily. (Unfortunately). Regards, -- Rogério Brito : rbr...@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org