Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:44:22 -0500 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add quirk to set AHCI mode on ICH boards |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:29:37PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: >> And I might even privately patch my own kernels to map the ACHI BAR >> in the cases where the BIOS didn't... > > The inability to do this in the general case is the main reason why > AHCI was not unconditionally enabled, even in IDE mode, when it was > originally added... :/ ..
Yeah, that one's always puzzled me. It's just software, so why don't we do it? In the PCI layer, that is? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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