Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:16:48 +0200 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Switch from legacy ata(4) to CAM-based ATA Message-ID: <20110421221648.GN38455@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <4DB00651.6080708@FreeBSD.org> References: <4DAEAE1B.70207@FreeBSD.org> <20110420205115.GA86399@alchemy.franken.de> <4DB00651.6080708@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 01:26:25PM +0300, Alexander Motin wrote: > Marius Strobl wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:57:47PM +0300, Alexander Motin wrote: > >> With 9.0 release approaching quickly, I believe it the best time now to > >> manage migration from legacy ata(4) ATA to the new CAM-based one. New > >> ATA code present in the tree for more then a year now, used by many > >> people and proved it's superior functionality and reliability. The only > >> major issue with it now is the migration process. Sooner or later we > >> have to pass it, but due to major UI and API changes we can't do it > >> after 9.0 release. So I propose to do it the next Sunday (April 24) to > >> have as much time for troubleshooting as possible. > >> > >> I have prepared the following patch to do it: > >> http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/ata_switch.patch > > > > Could you please add descriptions of the controllers supported by > > ahci(4), mvs(4) and siis(4) to the kernel configuration files and > > preserve alphabetical ordering, i.e. list ata(4) after ahci(4)? > > OK. Here is the new patch: > http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/ata_switch2.patch > Thanks! Marius
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