Re: Update on problems creating iteraid driver disk

Re: Update on problems creating iteraid driver disk

[Nicolas Mailhot]

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Le dim, 25/04/2004 à 12:48 +1000, Paul Gear a écrit :
> Hi folks,
> 
> A while back i posted about trying to create iteraid driver disks for
> FC1.  With the help of David Kewley's instructions
> (http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~kewley/driverdisk/dd.html) on using Doug
> Ledford's driver kit (http://people.redhat.com/dledford/), i managed to
> create a proper driver disk.

Frankly if you really want to bother with ite hardware (the SII680 is
available here for the same price and is perfectly supported under
Linux) you should focus on getting their driver inside the kernel.org
sources.

ie make diffs, submit them to LKM, make the changes people request, etc
(ite is GPLed if  I remember well).

This may seem more difficult but remember the kernel is a moving
target : after six months you'll have spent more energy getting this
out-of-tree driver work than getting it in-tree now.

Cheers,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

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Re: Update on problems creating iteraid driver disk

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Sunday 25 of April 2004 12:49, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le dim, 25/04/2004 à 12:48 +1000, Paul Gear a écrit :
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > A while back i posted about trying to create iteraid driver disks for
> > FC1.  With the help of David Kewley's instructions
> > (http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~kewley/driverdisk/dd.html) on using Doug
> > Ledford's driver kit (http://people.redhat.com/dledford/), i managed to
> > create a proper driver disk.
>
> Frankly if you really want to bother with ite hardware (the SII680 is
> available here for the same price and is perfectly supported under
> Linux) you should focus on getting their driver inside the kernel.org

ITE docs are _publicly_ available unlike SiI ones.

> sources.

Yep.

> ie make diffs, submit them to LKM, make the changes people request, etc
> (ite is GPLed if  I remember well).
>
> This may seem more difficult but remember the kernel is a moving
> target : after six months you'll have spent more energy getting this
> out-of-tree driver work than getting it in-tree now.

Well, I still have ITE (libata!) driver on my TODO,
but due to lack of free drives and time it is not yet done.

Cheers.

Re: Update on problems creating iteraid driver disk

[Nicolas Mailhot]

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Le dim, 25/04/2004 à 22:46 +1000, Paul Gear a écrit :
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> > I should know, I got a few lines myself into the kernel, and it was
> > grunt work only me was interested in. Kudos to all the kernel
> > maintainers who listened to me at the time.
> 
> Got any suggestions as to who i should send patches to, then?  :-)

The obvious contact is Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewic the 2.6 ide maintainer.

> This still doesn't solve the problem of getting FC1 driver disks made,
> though.  

Well, it might have solved the FC2 driver disk problem had you worked on
it a month ago. It's getting a bit late for it now however :(. But you
can still try - the test releases are still following closely the
kernel.org progress.

Cheers,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

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