Re: Who can backport the AHCI driver to older kernels

[Gerhard Mack]

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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<>< As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.
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