Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <d...@des.no> writes: >> Andriy Gapon <a...@icyb.net.ua> writes: >>> Michael Butler <i...@protected-networks.net> writes: >>>> I have a custom kernel for my laptop which uses ATA_CAM rather than >>>> the now aging ATA driver .. >>> You do realize that ATA_CAM just (well, mostly) introduces a wrapper >>> around the "now aging ATA driver" ? >> Only for legacy drives, but since Micahel's panic message contains >> "current process = 12 (irq15: ata1)", his BIOS is probably in legacy >> mode. > > Sorry, I misparsed ATA_CAM as ahci. Why on earth would anyone want to > use ATA_CAM these days?
Because there is still a lot of legacy controllers, while ata(4)'s bus management code is buggy in some aspects, that are difficult to fix without complete rewrite. ATA_CAM wrapper replaces all that problematic code and works better now. -- Alexander Motin _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
