Dell CERC controller in 4.10 but not 5.2.1?

[Simon L. Nielsen]

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.

> 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.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
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