Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757255AbYFCLha (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 07:37:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752962AbYFCLhW (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 07:37:22 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:40017 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752626AbYFCLhW (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 07:37:22 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:37:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Rainer Koenig cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Who can backport the AHCI driver to older kernels In-Reply-To: <200806031247.42046.Rainer.Koenig@fujitsu-siemens.com> Message-ID: References: <200806031247.42046.Rainer.Koenig@fujitsu-siemens.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LNX 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 873 Lines: 20 On Tuesday 2008-06-03 12:47, Rainer Koenig wrote: > >New mainboard platfrom with latest chipset from a chipset vendor that >can't do the job that we are asking for. The chipset (especially the >SATA controller is supported in Kernel 2.6.24 and later. > >The target market for those boards is using old fashioned distributions >like CentOS, Debian, Fedora 8 openSUSE 10 and so on. Wait a minute, that seems like an impossible dependency. These boards cannot be targeted for these distro versions, because the manufacturer knows (hopefully) that the shipped kernel versions do not have the driver with the required new code. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/