AMD/ATI SB700 support to Ubuntu

[Shane Huang]

Greetings:

We have four patches for AMD/ATI SB700, and we will full support SB700
until 2.6.23-rc1. The four patches have been accepted by kernel org and
the applied kernel version are listed as below:

1.SMBus device ID   2.6.23-rc1
Upstream commit:
http://khali.linux-fr.org/devel/linux-2.6/jdelvare-i2c/i2c-piix4-add-ATI
-SB700-support.patch

2.IDE device ID     2.6.22
Upstream commit:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commi
t;h=6c6a2a8d201b4f8fd54167802da5ddbe08abd744

3.SATA device ID    2.6.22
Upstream commit:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commi
t;h=2bcfdde6767f2f07891d2753c25220012fe5e6d2

4.Combined mode     2.6.22
Upstream commit:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commi
t;h=823777181b4c0200923dcb026efa5b37f55c0ecf

Because the patch for SMBus device ID is sent after the merge window for
2.6.22, and as a result it is queued for the next kernel version:
2.6.23. 
it will be merged in Linus' tree between 2.6.22 (final) and 2.6.23-rc1.

Our request here is:
Would you please add these four SB700 patches into the kernel of Ubuntu
7.10?
If Ubuntu 7.10 will use the linux kernel after 2.6.23-rc1, then that's
good
and you may discard this mail.
Otherwise if it will use the kernel older than 2.6.23-rc1, please apply
these
four patches into it manually.

BTW:
We reported this issue on the Launchpad website about 20 days ago:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/120361
But it seems that no one is assigned to deal with this issue, so we
have to report these patches again by mail.


Thanks
Best Regards
Shane