Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 12:09:33 -0400
To: Matthew Stoltenberg <d3matt@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: motherboard recommendations?
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On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 10:03:55AM -0500, Matthew Stoltenberg wrote:
> I got an ASUS P5Q (P45 chipset) a couple of weeks ago.  A couple of
> minor issues:
> * The Marvell IDE controller is broken in 2.6.25 and 2.6.26.

Well I must admit I have never tried a marvell ide controller before.
Support only seems very recent, so they are not yet on my list of things
I know work.

> * Make sure the sata controller is running in AHCI mode

Well of course, AHCI is a lovely feature to have.

> * The onboard Atheros NIC is not supported in the kernel.  I have to
> build the driver seperately (it's actually on the driver disk)

Atheros?  Hmm, the P5K was using atlantic, so I wonder why they are not
using atheros.

> The intel HD audio works great.

That's always something.

So overall it sounds like:

Sound works
IDE probably will soon
Networking can be made to work, and hopefully will go in mainline kernel
soon.
SATA works.

That's not too bad for a brand new board.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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