From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>,
Riki Oktarianto <rkoktarianto@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add quirk to set AHCI mode on ICH boards
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:57:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47352C28.4070604@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071110035424.GB28975@thunk.org>
Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:05:05PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> By forcing AHCI, your PATA devices will be inaccessible, in a common
>> configuration. It also means shuffling users from one driver to another,
>> which induces breakage.
>>
>> I was speaking wishfully. Real life intrudes, alas.
>
> Not even as boot-time option? I'm curious whether it might allow me
> to use AHCI mode on a T60p laptop; right now I can't because in AHCI
> mode the Ultrabay hard drive device becomes invisible to Linux
> (although not to Windows, interestingly). I'm currently travelling
> and I don't carry the T60 around anymore, so I can't do the experiment
> right this moment, but given that this would allow the T60 to take
> advantage of ALPM if this works, it would be awfully tempting....
Oh sure, a boot-time option would be fine.
I want to spread AHCI far and wide; it is vastly superior to ata_piix in
many ways.
I was mainly talking about unconditionally changing behavior from the
current default, which presents several problems.
Jeff
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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>,
Riki Oktarianto <rkoktarianto@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add quirk to set AHCI mode on ICH boards
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:57:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47352C28.4070604@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071110035424.GB28975@thunk.org>
Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:05:05PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> By forcing AHCI, your PATA devices will be inaccessible, in a common
>> configuration. It also means shuffling users from one driver to another,
>> which induces breakage.
>>
>> I was speaking wishfully. Real life intrudes, alas.
>
> Not even as boot-time option? I'm curious whether it might allow me
> to use AHCI mode on a T60p laptop; right now I can't because in AHCI
> mode the Ultrabay hard drive device becomes invisible to Linux
> (although not to Windows, interestingly). I'm currently travelling
> and I don't carry the T60 around anymore, so I can't do the experiment
> right this moment, but given that this would allow the T60 to take
> advantage of ALPM if this works, it would be awfully tempting....
Oh sure, a boot-time option would be fine.
I want to spread AHCI far and wide; it is vastly superior to ata_piix in
many ways.
I was mainly talking about unconditionally changing behavior from the
current default, which presents several problems.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-10 3:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-09 2:02 [PATCH] Add quirk to set AHCI mode on ICH boards Riki Oktarianto
2007-11-09 2:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-11-09 3:29 ` Mark Lord
2007-11-09 3:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-11-09 4:44 ` Mark Lord
2007-11-09 4:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-11-09 15:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-11-09 12:04 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-09 14:49 ` Török Edwin
2007-11-09 22:38 ` Riki Oktarianto
2007-11-09 23:32 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2007-11-10 3:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-11-10 11:20 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2007-11-10 11:26 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2007-11-10 18:01 ` Mark Lord
2007-11-10 18:38 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2007-11-11 14:05 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2007-11-11 18:24 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2007-11-10 3:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-11-10 3:54 ` Theodore Tso
2007-11-10 3:57 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-11-10 3:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-11-10 18:37 ` Allen Martin
2007-11-10 18:37 ` Allen Martin
2007-11-10 19:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-11-13 7:27 ` Allen Martin
2007-11-13 7:27 ` Allen Martin
2007-11-13 15:27 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-13 15:27 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-14 18:35 ` Allen Martin
2007-11-14 18:35 ` Allen Martin
2007-11-14 18:46 ` Mark Lord
2007-11-14 18:58 ` Greg KH
2007-11-09 12:45 ` Riki Oktarianto
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