Re: [PATCH RFC] ahci: implement handoff quirk

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Jeff Garzik wrote:
> We probably need to do this...
> 
> it's not a controller requirement but a BIOS one, so in theory even an
> existing, deployed AHCI 1.2 platform could suddenly require BIOS/OS
> handoff, if a BIOS update suddenly starts doing new and weird stuff in SMI.
> 
> Note that we need to do BIOS/OS handoff upon resume as well as at boot
> time.

Yeah, probably.  Do you know of any system which makes use of this
feature?  I'm a bit uneasy about committing it without any testing.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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