Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:26:25 +0300 From: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Cc: FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Switch from legacy ata(4) to CAM-based ATA Message-ID: <4DB00651.6080708@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20110420205115.GA86399@alchemy.franken.de> References: <4DAEAE1B.70207@FreeBSD.org> <20110420205115.GA86399@alchemy.franken.de>
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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 -- Alexander Motin
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