From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [git patches] libata updates for 3.3 Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:03:01 +0000 Message-ID: <20120116220300.GA6961@srcf.ucam.org> References: <4F12E57E.3090805@garzik.org> <1326676534.13517.3.camel@minggr> <1326691403.13517.21.camel@minggr> <20120116194211.2cd09fb3@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> <20120116195427.64edd96f@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> <20120116212640.GA6313@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:43333 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754562Ab2APWDK (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:03:10 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Alan Cox , Lin Ming , Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, LKML On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 01:34:53PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > > Macs will come up with ahci if you boot via EFI rather than the BIOS > > compatibility module. > > Apparently not this one. Or there is something else subtly wrong. I > use rEFIt to boot Linux on this thing, which should mean that it > booted as an EFI image, even if the kernel itself is not natively > using EFI (or even built to care). refit is an EFI app, but it's usually used to trigger a BIOS-based boot. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org