linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add SATA device to VIA IRQ quirk fixup list

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Date:	Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:24:01 +0100
From:	Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org>
To:	Chris Wedgwood <cw@...f.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	greg@...ah.com, harmon@....edu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add SATA device to VIA IRQ quirk fixup list

Daniel Drake wrote:
> It is worth noting that on the Gentoo bug report, the user could not 
> boot from VIA SATA while that ID was not in the list. However, if the 
> ACPI was *disabled* then the system booted fine (even without the SATA 
> ID in the list, i.e. no quirk applied).
> 
> This suggests that the quirk is only needed for ACPI users, at least on 
> that system.

I just confirmed this on my own system, at least partially. I removed 
the quirk and the system booted fine.

This is with ACPI enabled, but APIC not enabled (hence the interrupts 
are XT-PIC). I cannot enable APIC on this system due to buggy BIOS.

Daniel

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