LINUX KERNEL AHCI ENABLE ON ICHX SOUTHBRIDGE

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Dhalsim
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For those who is used to run Linux, here it is a patch to force the ichX southbridges in AHCI mode without any BIOS NVRAM change. The patch reprograms PCI resources allocating the controller bar and enabling AHCI:

http://mjg59.livejournal.com/76062.html

The patch works but still missing cdrom drive support for certain notebooks (most ich7M,acer 5684) I'm investigating on the cdrom ussie, any suggestion ?



Regards, Dhalsim.
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