[PATCH 0/5] ahci: nvme remap support

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Fri Oct 21 23:50:38 PDT 2016


On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 05:25:21PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> Some Intel ahci implementations have the capability to expose another
> pci-express device's memory resources through an ahci memory bar.  Add
> the enabling to detect these configurations and register the resources
> for the nvme driver to consume. Otherwise, the nvme device is
> effectively hidden from the kernel for this configuration.

Honestly I think this is just too ugly to live. I think people getting
tricked by Intel into buying this piece of junk will just have to live
with AHCI mode.



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