Re: [git patches] libata updates for 3.3

[Jeff Garzik]

On 01/16/2012 03:21 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > > http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/tmp/ahci_quirk_cleanup.diff
> >
> > Hmm. This with just a setup option to enable it might well be good
> > enough. No need for whitelists/blacklists, since we couldn't maintain
> > those sanely anyway.
>
> That patch doesn't work for me. I get a panic in ahci_enable_ahci,
> looks like 'mmio' is bogus there (attempting to dereference 0x01ffe6).
>
> I notice that the PIIX device doesn't have any MMIO at all, it's all
> PIO. Maybe there is some "need to enable MMIO thing" too. Or maybe I
> used the wrong PCI ID when I added it to the quirk table.

Part of the problem with force-enable is that the MMIO BAR may need a 
value, and not have it.  That, and an expectations mismatch between BIOS 
and kernel WRT mode (IDE/AHCI) has always been the reason why 
'ahci=force' never made it in.  It just never seemed to be reliable broadly.

I'm happy with anything we can get working reliably, even with the 
obvious proviso that 'ahci=force' would be a default-off, user-enabled 
option.  It's always been motherboard/BIOS issues that got in the way.

	Jeff





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