Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:35:08 -0700
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Alex Buell <alex.buell@munted.org.uk>,
       Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Linux IDE mailing list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
       Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: No NCQ support on X61s Ultrabay?  (Intel ICH8 SATA controller
	question)
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On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 02:47:02PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > So, at the point of driver load, there just isn't much we can do about
> > the missing ABAR.  It's sad.  Dunno why some laptop manufacturers
> > still program the thing into piix mode.  :-(
> 
> Forcing out of PIIX mode would need to go into the PCI quirks and be a
> boot option not a module one - at that point its doable as a header quirk.

I think Matthew Garrett already has code to do this.
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