Re: Status of the sata_sil driver for the VT8237

[Jeff Garzik]

J. Ryan Earl wrote:
> I was wondering, what is the state of the sata_sil driver for the VIA 
> VT8237 southbridge (ie the one used commonly on their K8T 
> motherboards).  Is this still beta?  Any known problems with it?

Well prior to the most recent version, calling it "beta" was putting it 
kindly.  I would call it broken :) which was why it was marked with 
CONFIG_BROKEN...

As of the most recent 2.6.5-rc2-bk snapshots, libata and sata_sil should 
be pretty happy with each other.

Some of the VIA problems were actually platform-related.  "noapic", 
"nomce", turning -on- local APIC support, and a few other workarounds 
have been found for these.

If you're on x86-64, make sure you have the latest BIOS version, too.

	Jeff




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