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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Allen Martin <AMartin@nvidia.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	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: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:46:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <473B4271.3000201@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F72FA20C31DD4F4C997B91C5B3690A095054A7@hqemmail07.nvidia.com>

Allen Martin wrote:
..
> Errata for which there is an SBIOS workaround are generally only
> released to BIOS vendors and under NDA.  If Linux users were impacted by
> such a bug we would most likely release a patch, but a much more likely
..

All of that silly secrecy harms your company and your customers.
You really should find a way to make the full information available
to all O/S providers.  In the case of Linux, this costs nothing
but a willingness on your part.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-14 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20071109020235.GA2031@ceren>
2007-11-09  2:31 ` [PATCH] Add quirk to set AHCI mode on ICH boards 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
2007-11-10 18:37           ` Allen Martin
2007-11-10 19:04             ` Jeff Garzik
2007-11-13  7:27               ` Allen Martin
2007-11-13 15:27                 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-14 18:35                   ` Allen Martin
2007-11-14 18:46                     ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-11-14 18:58                       ` Greg KH
2007-11-09 12:45   ` Riki Oktarianto

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