https://lwn.net/Articles/5165/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "The 2.5 Todo List". en-us Sun, 12 Oct 2025 01:34:36 +0000 Sun, 12 Oct 2025 01:34:36 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net https://lwn.net/Articles/5214/ https://lwn.net/Articles/5214/ Peter <blockquote>The FAQ explicitly states that there should be no change needed in any OS.</blockquote> <p>Just a guess: the ATA controller will probably be like "regular" ATA controllers - it'll use the old, crufty ISA interface, which every OS supports, but if you want to use UDMA or other modern features, you'll have to have a specific driver. If Serial ATA is so similar to "regular" ATA, perhaps (for example) Intel's chipsets for it will be so similar to the PIIX4 / ICH series that Linux will use the same driver with only minor tweaks.</p> <p>We shall see. And really, I have no idea.</p> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 02:04:01 +0000 https://lwn.net/Articles/5182/ https://lwn.net/Articles/5182/ yem Anyone know more about the Serial ATA support? I had a peek at http://www.serialata.org/ and they seemed it indicate that it is a drop in replacement for parallel ATA. The FAQ explicitly states that there should be no change needed in any OS.<p>So what needs to be added to support SATA?<p>I read that Seagate will have a 60Gb SATA drive in stores next month, motherboards will be common by years end. I really don't want to wait for a 2.7 backport if SATA takes off. Sat, 20 Jul 2002 09:49:36 +0000