Public bug reported: [Impact] Intel Rapid Storage Technology hides NVMe behind AHCI controller, to provide firmware base "fusion drive", like combining with Intel Optane.
There's a driver to support this but upstream doesn't like it for reasons like NVMe quirks can't be applied when NVMe are behind AHCI controller. So we need to devise a mechanism to ask users to change BIOS storage settings. This patch only provides a new attribute to let userspace like distro installer know NVMe is remapped behind AHCI. [Fix] Add a new attribute to show that how many NVMes are remapped. [Test] After applying the patch, there's a new "remapped_nvme" under the AHCI PCI device sysfs. If there's no remapped NVMe: $ cat remapped_nvme 0 If there are two remapped NVMes: $ cat remapped_nvme 2 [Regression Potential] Low. It adds a new read only sysfs attribute, no actual functional change to the AHCI driver. ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu Focal) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Package changed: network-manager (Ubuntu) => linux (Ubuntu) ** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Focal) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1863621 Title: Add sysfs attribute to show remapped NVMe Status in linux package in Ubuntu: New Status in linux source package in Focal: New Bug description: [Impact] Intel Rapid Storage Technology hides NVMe behind AHCI controller, to provide firmware base "fusion drive", like combining with Intel Optane. There's a driver to support this but upstream doesn't like it for reasons like NVMe quirks can't be applied when NVMe are behind AHCI controller. So we need to devise a mechanism to ask users to change BIOS storage settings. This patch only provides a new attribute to let userspace like distro installer know NVMe is remapped behind AHCI. [Fix] Add a new attribute to show that how many NVMes are remapped. [Test] After applying the patch, there's a new "remapped_nvme" under the AHCI PCI device sysfs. If there's no remapped NVMe: $ cat remapped_nvme 0 If there are two remapped NVMes: $ cat remapped_nvme 2 [Regression Potential] Low. It adds a new read only sysfs attribute, no actual functional change to the AHCI driver. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1863621/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp