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

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 01:26:25PM +0300, Alexander Motin wrote:
> 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
> 

Thanks!

Marius