From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@gmail.com>,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] WMI patches for acpi-test (v2)
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:03:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802051603.30466.lenb@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080205021658.4422.83165.stgit@pacifica>
On Monday 04 February 2008 21:16, Carlos Corbacho wrote:
> 2) Do you know of any IA64 systems using ACPI-WMI? At the moment, WMI will work
> on x86 and hopefully IA64, but if it turns out that no vendor has or ever will
> implement ACPI-WMI on IA64, then we could safely drop it there.
I recommend skipping WMI on IA64 unless/until a real need to support it emerges.
There are no WMI extensions on the Intel Tiger or Hitachi Fusion IA64 boxes I have access to.
thanks,
-Len
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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@gmail.com>,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] WMI patches for acpi-test (v2)
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:03:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802051603.30466.lenb@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080205021658.4422.83165.stgit@pacifica>
On Monday 04 February 2008 21:16, Carlos Corbacho wrote:
> 2) Do you know of any IA64 systems using ACPI-WMI? At the moment, WMI will work
> on x86 and hopefully IA64, but if it turns out that no vendor has or ever will
> implement ACPI-WMI on IA64, then we could safely drop it there.
I recommend skipping WMI on IA64 unless/until a real need to support it emerges.
There are no WMI extensions on the Intel Tiger or Hitachi Fusion IA64 boxes I have access to.
thanks,
-Len
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-05 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-05 2:16 [PATCH 0/5] WMI patches for acpi-test (v2) Carlos Corbacho
2008-02-05 2:17 ` [PATCH 1/5] ACPI: WMI: Add ACPI-WMI mapping driver Carlos Corbacho
2008-02-05 2:17 ` [PATCH 2/5] acer-wmi: Add driver for newer Acer laptops Carlos Corbacho
2008-02-05 2:17 ` [PATCH 3/5] [RFC] tc1100-wmi: Add driver for HP Compaq TC1100 Tablets Carlos Corbacho
2008-02-05 2:17 ` [PATCH 4/5] ACPI: WMI: Add sysfs userspace interface Carlos Corbacho
2008-02-05 22:59 ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-02-06 11:36 ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-02-07 3:49 ` Len Brown
2008-08-27 13:53 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-27 20:21 ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-08-27 20:44 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-29 15:05 ` [PATCH] Documentation: Provide Documenation/udev.txt Thomas Renninger
2008-08-29 15:30 ` Kay Sievers
2008-08-29 15:35 ` Thomas Renninger
2009-04-29 20:38 ` [PATCH 4/5] ACPI: WMI: Add sysfs userspace interface Matthew Garrett
2009-04-29 21:09 ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-02-05 2:17 ` [PATCH 5/5] ACPI: WMI: Add documentation Carlos Corbacho
2008-02-05 2:25 ` [PATCH 5/5] ACPI: WMI: Add initial documentation Carlos Corbacho
2008-02-06 3:12 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-02-06 10:51 ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-02-05 21:03 ` Len Brown [this message]
2008-02-05 21:03 ` [PATCH 0/5] WMI patches for acpi-test (v2) Len Brown
2008-02-05 21:18 ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-02-05 21:18 ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-02-06 0:35 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-02-06 0:35 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-02-06 2:03 ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-02-06 2:03 ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-02-06 6:30 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-02-06 6:30 ` Bjorn Helgaas
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