Re: RFC: ACPI/scsi/libata integration and hotswap

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 08:52:25AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:39:45PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Doing SATA suspend/resume properly on x86 depends on knowing the ACPI 
> > object that corresponds to a host or target.
> 
> Not true.

Well, where "properly" means "conforming to the ACPI spec". If _GTF is 
there, it's meant to be called. The _GTF buffer contents can potentially 
vary depending on BIOS settings, so there's no way for Linux to know 
what the correct commands to send are. And since _GTF responses can also 
depend on the information passed to _SDD, it's necessary to support that 
as well.

> > It's also the only way to 
> > support hotswap on this hardware[1],
> 
> Not true.

I was under the impression that ICH5 and ICH6 in non-AHCI mode didn't 
generate any sort of hotswap interrupt. This gets around that.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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