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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>,
	linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>,
	gregkh@suse.de, lenb@ker
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:00:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071114220022.GB19850@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071114214221.GC6575@ldl.fc.hp.com>

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 02:42:21PM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> * Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>:
> > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 10:37:08AM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > 
> > > So I agree that the firmware kit has a clever hack that works
> > > on much existing x86 firmware, and it sounds like Tivoli
> > > might even rely on it.  But I don't feel good about it, and
> > > it could easily break when some BIOS writer needs to make
> > > _SUN slightly more complicated.
> > 
> > Do you know of such BIOSes out there that do this?  Will the
> > above scheme not work for the ia64 boxes that you know of that
> > are out in the world today?
> 
> One last mail on this subject -- Bjorn has pointed out to me that
> the Dell pe6800 and rez1850 both implement _SUN as control
> methods today.

Does the firmware kit break on them?

> Does Tivoli run on those machines? If so, how is it getting slot
> information?

I have no idea, I don't work for them :)

good luck,

greg k-h

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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>,
	linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>,
	gregkh@suse.de, lenb@kernel.org, matthew@wil.cx,
	rick.jones2@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:00:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071114220022.GB19850@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071114214221.GC6575@ldl.fc.hp.com>

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 02:42:21PM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> * Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>:
> > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 10:37:08AM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > 
> > > So I agree that the firmware kit has a clever hack that works
> > > on much existing x86 firmware, and it sounds like Tivoli
> > > might even rely on it.  But I don't feel good about it, and
> > > it could easily break when some BIOS writer needs to make
> > > _SUN slightly more complicated.
> > 
> > Do you know of such BIOSes out there that do this?  Will the
> > above scheme not work for the ia64 boxes that you know of that
> > are out in the world today?
> 
> One last mail on this subject -- Bjorn has pointed out to me that
> the Dell pe6800 and rez1850 both implement _SUN as control
> methods today.

Does the firmware kit break on them?

> Does Tivoli run on those machines? If so, how is it getting slot
> information?

I have no idea, I don't work for them :)

good luck,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-14 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-13  0:08 [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects Alex Chiang
2007-11-13  0:12 ` [PATCH 1/5] Remove path attribute from sgi_hotplug Alex Chiang
2007-11-13  0:12   ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-13  0:13 ` [PATCH 2/5] Construct one fakephp slot per pci slot Alex Chiang
2007-11-13  0:13   ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-13 19:48   ` Linas Vepstas
2007-11-13 19:52     ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-11-14 12:39   ` [Pcihpd-discuss] " Rolf Eike Beer
2007-11-14 14:17     ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-14 14:49       ` Rolf Eike Beer
2007-11-14 15:01         ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-13  0:14 ` [PATCH 3/5, RFC] Introduce pci_slot Alex Chiang
2007-11-13  0:14   ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-13 19:56   ` Linas Vepstas
2007-11-13 20:03     ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-11-13  0:17 ` [PATCH 4/5, RFC] ACPI PCI slot detection driver Alex Chiang
2007-11-13  0:17   ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-13  0:18   ` [PATCH 5/5] Add pci_slot_add_hotplug() interface Alex Chiang
2007-11-13  0:18     ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-13 17:01 ` [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects Greg KH
2007-11-13 18:33   ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-11-13 18:51     ` Greg KH
2007-11-13 20:11       ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-11-13 20:19         ` Greg KH
2007-11-13 23:08         ` Gary Hade
2007-11-14  1:37           ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-15  0:40             ` Gary Hade
2007-11-15 17:36               ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-15 23:38                 ` Gary Hade
2007-11-14 14:42           ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-14 18:13             ` Gary Hade
2007-11-14 18:36               ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-13 20:36       ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-13 21:30         ` Greg KH
2007-11-13 22:01           ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-11-13 22:16             ` Greg KH
2007-11-13 21:15       ` Matt Domsch
2007-11-13 21:31         ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-13 21:36           ` Greg KH
2007-11-13 23:14             ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-13 21:36           ` Greg KH
2007-11-13 21:32         ` Greg KH
2007-11-13 20:21   ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-13 20:26     ` Greg KH
2007-11-13 20:26       ` Greg KH
2007-11-13 22:51       ` Rick Jones
2007-11-13 22:56         ` Greg KH
2007-11-13 23:04           ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-11-13 23:07             ` Greg KH
2007-11-14  6:00               ` Scott Murray
2007-11-13 23:33             ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-11-14  0:10               ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-11-14  9:55                 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2007-11-14 18:38                   ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-11-13 22:59       ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-11-14 17:37         ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-11-14 17:53           ` Greg KH
2007-11-14 19:53             ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-14 21:24             ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-14 21:42             ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-14 22:00               ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-11-14 22:00                 ` Greg KH
2007-11-15 20:20                 ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-14 17:44       ` Matthew Garrett
2007-11-14 17:51         ` Greg KH
2007-11-14 18:03           ` Matthew Garrett
2007-11-13 20:24   ` Linas Vepstas
2007-11-13 20:59     ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-13 21:41       ` Linas Vepstas
2007-11-13 21:58         ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-11-14  1:07   ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-14 14:17     ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-11-14 14:35       ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-14 15:00         ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-11-14 15:08           ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-14 15:12             ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-11-14 15:20             ` Alex Chiang
2007-11-14 11:43 ` Kenji Kaneshige

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