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From: Robert Hancock on 23 Feb 2010 23:40
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Yuhong Bao <yuhongbao_386(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> it doesn't work. Based on the libata experience with AHCI which has a
>> similar 64-bit feature flag, there are some controllers that didn't do
>> it properly, but not many (only ATI SB600 it appears, and only on
>> certain boards, as it seems it was a BIOS configuration issue).
> It seems it was solved by a DMI whitelist, but if it is a BIOS configuration issue, I think it would be better if it could be detected directly instead by reading the configuration directly from the device and correcting it if possible. Is that possible?

That would likely be the ideal solution, but only AMD would likely
have the info needed to do that, if it's possible..
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From: Yuhong Bao on 23 Feb 2010 23:40

> That would likely be the ideal solution, but only AMD would likely
> have the info needed to do that, if it's possible..
That is why I am CCing shane.huang(a)amd.com, maybe they can help here.

Yuhong Bao

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