Re: SATA support in Linux kernel's menuconfig

2010-02-08 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 19:07 -0500, linux fan wrote: > I have both and udev works ok with everything. > CONFIG_IDE=y > CONFIG_ATA=y Yes, there's no actual problem with having both enabled, and if it works, there's no necessity to change it. But libata is the future, and I assume at some point they'

Re: SATA support in Linux kernel's menuconfig

2010-02-08 Thread linux fan
On 2/8/10, Andrew Benton wrote: > On 08/02/10 15:04, Ken Moffat wrote: > Indeed. I was wrong. They do work with libata. They were older machines > that were working fine so I avoided the headache of altering their > kernel configs. My first couple of attempts at getting libata to work > ended wit

Re: SATA support in Linux kernel's menuconfig

2010-02-08 Thread Andrew Benton
On 08/02/10 15:04, Ken Moffat wrote: > Supposedly, only power macs (i.e. 32-bit ppc) are not supported > by libata, everything else ought to work (but, perhaps not any i586 > or older machines). As with anything in the kernel, the technically > correct answer is painful (post on lkml, be prepare

Re: SATA support in Linux kernel's menuconfig

2010-02-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On 8 February 2010 11:09, Andrew Benton wrote: > Well you must know something I don't. I have 3 computers that will not > boot if I don't use CONFIG_IDE=y > Of course, I use libata on the computers that can use it. But in my > experience it's not true that libata supports all IDE hardware. > > And

Re: SATA support in Linux kernel's menuconfig

2010-02-08 Thread Andrew Benton
On 08/02/10 12:54, Aditya Bankar wrote: > In lfs we haven't compiled libdata. Thus, I think, we will have to use > "Support for SATA". If I compile libdata how do I tell kernel that libdata > must be used for SATA support? Do we need to use bootscripts? > I'm not familiar with libdata. libata is

Re: SATA support in Linux kernel's menuconfig

2010-02-08 Thread Aditya Bankar
- Original Message > From: Simon Geard > To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org > Sent: Mon, 8 February, 2010 10:34:23 AM > Subject: Re: SATA support in Linux kernel's menuconfig > > On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 14:42 +0530, Aditya Bankar wrote: > > Can The libra

Re: SATA support in Linux kernel's menuconfig

2010-02-08 Thread Andrew Benton
On 08/02/10 05:04, Simon Geard wrote: > On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 14:42 +0530, Aditya Bankar wrote: >> Can The library libata be used during boot time? > > Can be, and should be. The "Support for SATA" option is very old, dating > to when SATA was a new thing - libata was it's replacement, and should >

Re: SATA support in Linux kernel's menuconfig

2010-02-07 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 14:42 +0530, Aditya Bankar wrote: > Can The library libata be used during boot time? Can be, and should be. The "Support for SATA" option is very old, dating to when SATA was a new thing - libata was it's replacement, and should be used for all SATA and IDE hardware these day

Re: SATA support in Linux kernel's menuconfig

2010-02-07 Thread Andrew Benton
On 07/02/10 09:12, Aditya Bankar wrote: > Hi, > > While doing make menuconfig, in chapter 8 lfs-6.5, I found the following: > > "Support for SATA (deprecated; conflicts with libata SATA driver)" > > I have SATA harddrive. If I don't enable this how would the kernel talk to > SATA drive? Use libat

SATA support in Linux kernel's menuconfig

2010-02-07 Thread Aditya Bankar
Hi, While doing make menuconfig, in chapter 8 lfs-6.5, I found the following: "Support for SATA (deprecated; conflicts with libata SATA driver)" I have SATA harddrive. If I don't enable this how would the kernel talk to SATA drive? Can The library libata be used during boot time? Thanks, Adity