Re: [Mactel-linux-devel] ahci for macbook

[Matthew G. <mj...@sr...>]

On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 11:23:57PM +0200, Matteo Croce wrote:
> Hi, what about enabling AHCI mode for the controller with this patch: 
> http://teknoraver.campuslife.it/software/mac-ahci.diff
> and get noticeable speed improvements like these? 
> http://teknoraver.campuslife.it/bench/ata_piix_vs_ahci.pdf

If you want to use AHCI, it would make much more sense to write a DMI 
hack to reprogram Macbook controllers to AHCI mode and then let the 
normal driver loading rules apply. While you can get away with just 
force-loading the ahci driver on Macs, that's not true in general.

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Matthew Garrett | mj...@sr...