sata_promise PATA port support is missing from kernels later than 2.6.10-5

[Sturm Flut]

Ubuntu kernel 2.6.10-5 obviously uses a manually patched version of the
sata_promise driver that is able to detect and use the PATA port present on
Promise Fastrak/SATA 378 chipsets. The vanilla kernel series up to 2.6.12.3
feature a version of sata_promise that doesn't contain any code for handling the
PATA port and neither does Ubuntu kernel 2.6.11-1. I would use kernel 2.6.10-5
but it has some errors with handling my AMD Athlon64 CPU (cpufreq is not able to
select lower frequencies) so I have the choice to

- use Ubuntu 2.6.10-5 and have no working speedstep or
- use Ubuntu 2.6.11-1 or any vanilla kernel and have no access to the hard drive
attached to the PATA port of the Promise controller.

The best would be to include the PATA support in vanilla kernels (I already
contacted the maintainer, Jeff Garzik, about that) but until that happens it
would be fine if Ubuntu kernel 2.6.11-1 gets a PATA enabled version of
sata_promise or the Athlon64 cpufreq issue is solved.

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione)]

Jeff Garzik, author of the initial patch told us to remove it. It has been
inclueded in hoary by mistake.

Cheers
Fabio

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 18982.