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From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Fedora-ia64-list] Re: The 5th bar of ide controller at legacy
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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:24:24 -0500
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>
> If many other BIOS writers believe the same thing as ours, then maybe
> it might be worth fixing ... otherwise it looks like we'll need a quirk
> (this machine is old, there isn't much liklihood of an updated BIOS release
> for just this issue).
>
>   

Tony,

As Alan suggested I think Yanmin should put together an 
arch/ia64/kernel/quirks.c (similar to arch/i386/kernel/quirks.c).

Note that my worry is by opening up quirks.c to this type of fix, 
vendors will be less inclined to fix other serious BIOS issues...

P.