If you just config KERNEL as usual there should be no apparent changes, you'll get all chipset support code compiled in.
However there is now a way to only compile in code for chipsets needed on a pr vendor basis. ATA now has the following "device" entries:
atacore: ATA core functionality, always needed for any ATA setup
atacard: CARDBUS support
atacbus: PC98 cbus support
ataisa: ISA bus support
atapci: PCI bus support only generic chipset support.
ataahci: AHCI support, also pulled in by some vendor modules.
ataacard, ataacerlabs, ataadaptec, ataamd, ataati, atacenatek, atacypress, atacyrix, atahighpoint, ataintel, ataite, atajmicron, atamarvell, atamicron, atanational, atanetcell, atanvidia, atapromise, ataserverworks, atasiliconimage, atasis, atavia; Vendor support, ie atavia for VIA chipsets
atadisk: ATA disk driver
ataraid: ATA softraid driver
atapicd: ATAPI cd/dvd driver
atapifd: ATAPI floppy/flashdisk driver
atapist: ATAPI tape driver
atausb: ATA<>USB bridge
atapicam: ATA<>CAM bridge
This makes it possible to config a kernel with just VIA chipset support by having the following ATA lines in the kernel config file:
device atacore
device atapci
device atavia
And then you need the atadisk, atapicd etc lines in there just as usual.
If you use ATA as modules loaded at boot there is few changes except the rename of the "ata" module to "atacore", things looks just as usual.
However under atapci you now have a whole bunch of vendor specific drivers, that you can kldload individually depending on you needs. Drivers have the same names as used in the kernel config explained above.
Thanks goes to ITE who provided docs and feedback and made this possible.
Minor fixups to the Intel ICH code for bugs found while doing this.
(ITE8213 is very semilar to an Intel ICH)
MFC after: 1 week
when it worked as generic IDE.
PR: 125422
Submitted by: Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher at yandex dot ru>
Approved by: imp (mentor, implicit)
MFC after: 1 week
Support is working on the Silicon Image SiI3124/3132.
Support is working on some AHCI chips but far from all.
Remember this is WIP, so test reports and (constructive) suggestions are welcome!
UDMA modes.
Please notice that Soekris NET5501 bios versions before 1.32f has a bug
that prevents this from working.
Approved by: re (gnn)
MFC: 2 weeks
The register layout has changed since the original NV4 - sigh.
Hotplug support has been fixed for all nVidia chipsets that supports it
(including the MCP51/55).
HW donated by: Kingsley College
Update Intel MatrixRAID support to be able to pick up RAID0+1 (RAID10)
and RAID5 arrays without panic'ing.
This has the side effect of now also supporting multiple volumes on
MatrixRAID's now I have the metadata better understood..
HW sponsored by: Mullet Scandinavia AB
