Sis695 southbridge support (Asus K8S-MX)

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2 total messages Started by Timur Sun, 18 Sep 2005 08:38

#307822

Author: Timur
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 08:38

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It is the first time for me to write to the list so I
hope that I'll be forgiven if I'm not as precise as I
should (I'm definitely not a kernel hacker).

My current motherboard (Asus K8S-MX) uses SiS 695
chipset for southbridge to provide also a SATA/RAID
controller. To my understanding, current kernel does
not support this chipset and for this reason SiS
provides a GPL driver
(http://www.sis.com/download/download_step2.php?id5881&agree=1&countryÊnada&Image7911.xg&Image7911.y=8)
which need to be compiled and loaded in order to
access to sata disks. According to SiS, the driver is
designed for kernel 2.6.10 or higher, so my question
is: would it be possible to include it in one of next
kernel releases so that people don't have to recompile
it each time they upgrade the kernel?

Thanks a lot,
blackdir

Note: for those who might be interested, the
motherboard has also a separated IDE controller but
this is already properly recognized in 2.6.10 and used
by the sis5513 module.



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Re: Sis695 southbridge support (Asus K8S-MX)

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Author: Francois Romieu
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:03

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Timur <blackdir@yahoo.com> :
[...]
> My current motherboard (Asus K8S-MX) uses SiS 695
> chipset for southbridge to provide also a SATA/RAID
> controller. To my understanding, current kernel does
> not support this chipset

Please try the sata_sis.c driver of a recent kernel and
report any issue on linux-ide@vger.kernel.org

With this motherboard, you can try the in-kernel sis190
driver too (reports go to netdev@vger.kernel.org for this
one).

--
Ueimor

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