RE: [PATCH] Add SATA device to VIA IRQ quirk fixup list

[Brown, Len]

I've been trying very hard to stay away from VIA quirks,
but there are some things to be aware of.

1. quirks are independent of ACPI on/off

Note that ACPI PCI Interrupt Link Devices
are just a wrapper around the same legacy PIRQ router
seen in legacy mode.

The added twist is that it is possible for VIA
to do quirks in ACPI automatically if they want to --
since all it takes is a few lines of AML where we set the link
to a new state.  (we should go see if they're doing this now --
in the past I don not think they did, and so quirks are probably
still needed in ACPI mode on at least old machines)

2. quirks are independent of PIC/IOAPIC

In both ACPI on and ACPI off modes, we tend to touch PIC
interrupts as _little_ as possible.  So it may be that
our system boots up just fine in PIC mode w/o quirks --
but the reason may be because we didn't try to invoke any irq mappings
--
we found we could live with what the BIOS left us and we
used it untouched.

As the IOAPIC is disabled in the default BIOS mode,
we always have to set that up, and a good part of the time
we have to choose our own mappings, so quirks are more likely
to be noticed to be ncessary in IOAPIC mode.

hope this helps,
-Len
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