Re: Switch from legacy ata(4) to CAM-based ATA

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