Re: RFC: ACPI/scsi/libata integration and hotswap

Matthew Garrett
2005-12-10T02:34:26Z

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 07:40:08PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> ICH6 and ICH7 support it just fine, through the normal SATA PHY
> registers. ICH5 only support it if you are clever :)

ICH6 supports it even in non-AHCI mode? You may want to update the
website, then :)

> Further, although one can detect hot-unplug on ICH5, hotplug is probably
> not detectable without polling or SMI.

ACPI allows us to detect hotplug on ICH5, which sounds like a good
argument for its inclusion.
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