From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: [RFC] make PC Speaker driver work on x86-64 Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 22:35:09 +0200 Message-ID: <200605022235.09381.ak@suse.de> References: <200604291830.k3TIUA23009336@harpo.it.uu.se> <200605021950.17737.ak@suse.de> <4457C228.9050209@free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:991 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751324AbWEBUfO (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2006 16:35:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4457C228.9050209@free.fr> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: matthieu castet Cc: discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 02 May 2006 22:33, matthieu castet wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Does it work? > > > of course (at least on x86) ! > > > Also I have no idea if all x86 systems report the PC speaker in ACPI - a small > > survey of that would be probably a good idea. I guess just most of them reporting it would be > > reasonable. > That's why I keep the platform driver : > the logic is try with ACPI in order to discover if there is a speaker. > If we failed, let's try the platform driver. Ok - you mean just keeping the old code for that as fallback That makes sense. > Matthieu > > PS : even system without ACPI should report the speaker with pnpbios. PNP BIOS doesn't work on 64bit. -Andi