Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: Update on problems creating iteraid driver disk | Date | Sun, 25 Apr 2004 13:28:18 +0200 |
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On Sunday 25 of April 2004 12:49, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le dim, 25/04/2004 à 12:48 +1000, Paul Gear a écrit : > > Hi folks, > > > > A while back i posted about trying to create iteraid driver disks for > > FC1. With the help of David Kewley's instructions > > (http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~kewley/driverdisk/dd.html) on using Doug > > Ledford's driver kit (http://people.redhat.com/dledford/), i managed to > > create a proper driver disk. > > Frankly if you really want to bother with ite hardware (the SII680 is > available here for the same price and is perfectly supported under > Linux) you should focus on getting their driver inside the kernel.org
ITE docs are _publicly_ available unlike SiI ones.
> sources.
Yep.
> ie make diffs, submit them to LKM, make the changes people request, etc > (ite is GPLed if I remember well). > > This may seem more difficult but remember the kernel is a moving > target : after six months you'll have spent more energy getting this > out-of-tree driver work than getting it in-tree now.
Well, I still have ITE (libata!) driver on my TODO, but due to lack of free drives and time it is not yet done.
Cheers.
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