From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932104AbVIRPiZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2005 11:38:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932105AbVIRPiZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2005 11:38:25 -0400 Received: from web54513.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.49.163]:15220 "HELO web54513.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932104AbVIRPiZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2005 11:38:25 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=No4fQsvUsgLJKj35Bl1uJLLIWijHMKL/HsgOf0SC42GDHKFqC7v9miLlXqpyUwOlWds3AgJAGHM8H5tta8KkgQUvQ4lhbUKXSnir1ngUf9izszeCQvuBRV/5Fzn1SfPxCtCYD4vDErT1ZP0X+LQRihMRFcvyAn2yPqu9OJljKIg= ; Message-ID: <20050918153818.42941.qmail@web54513.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 08:38:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Timur Subject: Sis695 southbridge support (Asus K8S-MX) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org It is the first time for me to write to the list so I hope that I'll be forgiven if I'm not as precise as I should (I'm definitely not a kernel hacker). My current motherboard (Asus K8S-MX) uses SiS 695 chipset for southbridge to provide also a SATA/RAID controller. To my understanding, current kernel does not support this chipset and for this reason SiS provides a GPL driver (http://www.sis.com/download/download_step2.php?id=155881&agree=1&country=Canada&Image7911.x=67&Image7911.y=8) which need to be compiled and loaded in order to access to sata disks. According to SiS, the driver is designed for kernel 2.6.10 or higher, so my question is: would it be possible to include it in one of next kernel releases so that people don't have to recompile it each time they upgrade the kernel? Thanks a lot, blackdir Note: for those who might be interested, the motherboard has also a separated IDE controller but this is already properly recognized in 2.6.10 and used by the sis5513 module. __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com