From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Description of problem: The driver for this device appears to have been available for some time. It is also GPL. It is available from the manufacturer. GigaByte sells a number of motherboards with this raid controller on it. I would like to install Fedora Core 2 onto striped raid0 drive. The fact that this driver is missing is hard to compensate for manually. I couldn't find a driver disk anywhere and don't feel competent enough to really create one. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1.x86_64.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the install CD 2. Try to install on a defined raid array. Actual Results: It couldn't find the raid array and the driver wasn't available. Expected Results: FC2 Test2 would have installed and I'd be happily using it on my Athlon 64 running on raid-0. :) Additional info:
1. it's a 2.4 driver, so useless for FC2. 2. it should go upstream if it should be merged at all. If it doesn't, Red Hat end up having to support it forever, and lacking the hardware to do so, this isn't going to happen. 3. From a quick skim of the source, it really needs some work before it'd be considered 'mergeable'.
Please look at this link: http://www.ite.com.tw/productInfo/Download.html#IT8212%20ATA133%20Controller It contains some docs on these drivers. Down at the bottom of the page there are several driver versions. There is a version for the 2.6 kernel. (here is the link directly to the 2.6 kern source). http://www.ite.com.tw/pc/LinuxSrc_it8212_092007-05_26x.zip Please skim the source for that version and see if it is of sufficient quality to merge.
Bug ITE to push their stuff upstream. This does need work, and the best place for that work to happen, is after its been through a round of code review at linux-scsi and linux-kernel.
To my great dismay, I can't even get their module to build on FC2 test3.
I have pursued this and have gotten the driver working on my machine. The driver had some trouble with x86_64 and I have been in contact with the author of the driver. He gave me an altered driver that works on AMD 64. It hasn't officially been released yet by ITE. Please check their website at : http://www.ite.com.tw/productInfo/Download.html for the official release of this driver. (should be soon). I was able to successfully make this build and work under Fedora Core 2 Test 3 by following the instructions for the 2.6 kernel at: http://www.passys.nl/tips/ite_kernel_image_compile.txt I will suggest to ITE submission to the kernel group.