Dell CERC controller in 4.10 but not 5.2.1?

Scott Long scottl at freebsd.org
Tue Jul 13 07:38:00 PDT 2004


Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2004.07.13 09:17:34 -0400, Bryan Fullerton wrote:
> 
>>I've noticed that the aac driver in 4.10-RELEASE-p2 includes support for 
>>the Dell CERC SATA controller, but the aac driver in 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 does 
>>not. Is this because changes elsewhere in the kernel break CERC support in 
>>5.x, or has it just not been backported from -CURRENT to 5.x-RELEASE?
> 
> 
> It's simply because 4.10 was released after 5.2, and the new device ID's
> were added to -CURRENT after 5.2 was released, and then MFC'ed to
> -STABLE before 4.10.  They will be in 5.3, when that is released.
> 

You are correct.

> 
>>Can I
>>just add the line for the CERC controller to aac_pci.c in 5.x
>>and expect it to work?
> 
> 
> Most likely yes, but I haven't tried, so I'm not sure.
> 

Correct, it will work.

Scott


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