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Subject: Re: [STATUS 2.5]  November 13, 2002
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
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On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 16:11, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:38:54AM -0500, Guillaume Boissiere wrote:
>  > Things are stabilizing after the feature freeze.  Of note the 
>  > merge of a new kernel module loader.
> 
> Something of a contradiction.. 8-)
>  
>  > o in 2.5.35  Serial ATA support  (Andre Hedrick)  
> 
> AFAIK, this still isn't merged.

Basic SII SATA support is merged. There are more infrastructure related
matters to resolve next - SATA hot swap means drivers can change
underneath users and neither the users nor the locking in the IDE code
expects it. "Suprise its a tape now!" during a CD burn for example

Beyond that there is the matter of SATA addressing, SATA2 and all the
mmio handling which right now is -really-ugly- because the core code
doesn't know what its doing.

You can use SATA in 2.5.47, just don't do anything clever with it 

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