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Re:After protest, Lenovo adds Linux compatibility to Yoga 90... by ajross on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @03:20PM (#12914233)
It's the "chipset" drivers, yes; but in the modern world all that hardware is on-chip and not meaningfully separable from the SoC. So sure, x86 code will run fine on the chip in any OS (e.g. Linux in virtualization under Windows 10). But you still can't boot Linux on it without drivers for the hardware.

In this case it's the SATA storage controller, which is configured by the BIOS in a mode that isn't compliant with the AHCI spec.

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Re:After protest, Lenovo adds Linux compatibility to Yoga 90... by amluto on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @05:29PM (#12915385)
> In this case it's the SATA storage controller, which is configured by the BIOS in a mode that isn't compliant with the AHCI spec.

Not quite. It's the PCIe bridge, configured in a thoroughly nonsensical way that makes it pretend that an NVMe device (which is a PCIe device in its own right) is hidden behind a SATA controller.

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