Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754450Ab1BQWwk (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:52:40 -0500 Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:1584 "EHLO ironport2-out.pppoe.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752169Ab1BQWwh (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:52:37 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApIBAKs0XU1Ld/sX/2dsb2JhbAAMhBPOE5BLgSeDQXYEhQo X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.62,182,1297054800"; d="scan'208";a="92042178" Message-ID: <4D5DA6B0.5080902@teksavvy.com> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:52:32 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Garrett CC: Jeff Garzik , Joerg Dorchain , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, LKML , linux-pci maillist Subject: Re: [Patch] enable AHCI mode on certain ich chipsets References: <20110216090548.GQ5778@Redstar.dorchain.net> <4D5C2974.4070608@garzik.org> <20110217163649.GC20662@srcf.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: <20110217163649.GC20662@srcf.ucam.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 930 Lines: 23 On 11-02-17 11:36 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 02:45:56PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> How is the assignment of the AHCI BAR handled? Does this happen >> automatically because it's an early fixup? >> >> That is traditionally the stumbling block... > > Yes, because it's an early fixup the kernel should allocate it itself. > It's small enough that I'd hope we don't have trouble finding one... It works here (the AHCI BAR setup) with this patch, though the workaround itself doesn't work because my Dell machine requires extra/secret fiddling to switch things fully over to AHCI. The patch does seem harmless enough to include in the kernel, though. -- 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/