From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] libata changes for v4.10-rc1
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 14:27:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161212192737.GI13864@htj.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161212190402.GA8592@infradead.org>
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 11:04:02AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I wish that was the case. We've pretty much agreed that we'll want
> to implement it as a virtual PCIe root bridge, similar to Intels other
> "innovation" VMD that we work around that way. But Intel management
> has apparently decided that they don't want to spend more cycles on
> this now that Lenovo has an optional BIOS that doesn't force this
> broken mode anymore, and no one outside of Intel has enough information
> to implement something like this.
>
> So for now I guess this warning is it, until Intel reconsideres and
> spends resources on fixing up the damage their Chipset people caused.
Dang, ah well, this is it then.
Thanks for explaining the situation.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-12 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-12 18:32 [GIT PULL] libata changes for v4.10-rc1 Tejun Heo
2016-12-12 19:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-12-12 19:27 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2016-12-13 22:24 ` [GIT PULL UPDATED] " Tejun Heo
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