Re: [git patches] libata updates for 3.3

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Mon Jan 16 2012 - 17:03:09 EST


On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 01:34:53PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Macs will come up with ahci if you boot via EFI rather than the BIOS
> > compatibility module.
>
> Apparently not this one. Or there is something else subtly wrong. I
> use rEFIt to boot Linux on this thing, which should mean that it
> booted as an EFI image, even if the kernel itself is not natively
> using EFI (or even built to care).

refit is an EFI app, but it's usually used to trigger a BIOS-based boot.

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