Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:35:08 -0700 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: No NCQ support on X61s Ultrabay? (Intel ICH8 SATA controller question) |
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On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 02:47:02PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > So, at the point of driver load, there just isn't much we can do about > > the missing ABAR. It's sad. Dunno why some laptop manufacturers > > still program the thing into piix mode. :-( > > Forcing out of PIIX mode would need to go into the PCI quirks and be a > boot option not a module one - at that point its doable as a header quirk.
I think Matthew Garrett already has code to do this.
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