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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add quirk to set AHCI mode on ICH boards
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:29:37 -0500
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To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Riki Oktarianto <rkoktarianto@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:02:35AM +0700, Riki Oktarianto wrote:
>> Some BIOSen map AHCI ABAR but lock the SATA controller to IDE mode.
>> This patch add quirk to set AHCI mode on ICH board with such case.
>>
>> Tested on Macbook2,1 (ICH7M)
> 
> Intel will complain but it's awful tempting...

*Very* tempting.

And I might even privately patch my own kernels to map the ACHI BAR
in the cases where the BIOS didn't...