From: Gerhard Mack <gmack@innerfire.net>
To: Rainer Koenig <Rainer.Koenig@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Who can backport the AHCI driver to older kernels
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 04:48:11 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0806040447291.5318@mtl.rackplans.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200806040650.12683.Rainer.Koenig@fujitsu-siemens.com>
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Rainer Koenig wrote:
> Hi Mikael,
>
> Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 14:07 schrieb Mikael Pettersson:
> > Redhat seems to regularly backport the entire libata layer
> > to at least 2.6.18 (RHEL5) and maybe also 2.6.9 (RHEL4).
>
> Yes indeed we get perfect support from both Red Hat and SUSE for their
> enterprise level distribution. I already got a driver kit for the
> SLES10 kernel. The problem is that the targeted market is not willing
> to use enterprise level (which means spend money for subscription)
> distros. They go for the "free" (as in free beer) distros and suffer
> from missing drivers.
>
Why not just create custom boot cds with the newer kernel for each distro?
It seems like less work.
Gerhard
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Gerhard Mack
gmack@innerfire.net
<>< As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-04 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-03 10:47 Rainer Koenig
2008-06-03 11:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-06-04 4:47 ` Rainer Koenig
2008-06-04 8:52 ` Nicolas Mailhot
2008-06-03 11:52 ` Frans Pop
2008-06-03 12:07 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-06-04 4:50 ` Rainer Koenig
2008-06-04 8:02 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-06-04 8:48 ` Gerhard Mack [this message]
2008-06-04 19:36 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2008-06-03 14:02 ` Mark Lord
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