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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add quirk to set AHCI mode on ICH boards
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:46:09 -0500
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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

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.