From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 2 00:50:23 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F20101065673 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2011 00:50:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gljennjohn@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 765388FC0A for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2011 00:50:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkat2 with SMTP id t2so3554214bka.13 for ; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:50:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:reply-to :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=f4I5pEakn/PLF1jDETb3+JPj8OTDqA+ZFRLDhalynmI=; b=qfApGi4HnQqgxuH4ATS3wW2YGAAdy8OFHeDNNUyAsX8C16dehi6/vueEFWHa8W1qmp CV6CHWNw993s64L2lJpzSD5FE9vwOUvaYcm9uGkvKHYutwdPC820KguGD78EsmL+Yj8I c0aBJAeghzUgK68dEZ7yqiS62oowP/wohEMxE= Received: by 10.204.12.68 with SMTP id w4mr9726352bkw.31.1322787022104; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:50:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from ernst.jennejohn.org (p578E1F5F.dip.t-dialin.net. [87.142.31.95]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id iu9sm15264207bkc.0.2011.12.01.16.50.20 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:50:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 01:50:19 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn To: George Kontostanos Message-ID: <20111202015019.43f4e2a0@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.18.7; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-Current Subject: Re: ahci in FreeBSD 9 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gljennjohn@googlemail.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:50:24 -0000 On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 21:31:18 +0200 George Kontostanos wrote: > Hi everyone, > > From my understanding as of 20110424 revision device ahci has been > integrated into kernel: > > ---------------- > It is possible to load devices ahci, ata, siis and mvs as modules, but > option ATA_CAM should remain in kernel configuration to make ata > module work as CAM driver supporting legacy ATA controllers. Device > ata still can be used in modular fashion > ....... > No kernel config options or code have been removed, so if a problem > arises, please report it and optionally revert to the old ATA stack. > In order to do it you can remove from the kernel config: > options ATA_CAM > device ahci > ---------------- > > Does this mean that loading ahci in loader.conf is useless ? > No, I load mine from there. It's not necessary to have "device ahci" in your kernel config file since the module will be generated and installed by default. This is what I have makeoptions MODULES_OVERRIDE="ahci linux linprocfs msdosfs pseudofs" ... #device ahci so it's obvious that I'm using only the module. -- Gary Jennejohn