From: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: add DMI info to enable OSI(Linux) on PRIMEQUEST
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 16:56:05 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <483A6D15.6030701@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080525114308.GA5237@ucw.cz>
Thank you for your response.
>> This patch adds DMI info to enable OSI(Linux) on
>> PRIMEQUEST.
>> (PRIMEQUEST is ia64 machine.)
>
> Why is it needed? Why needs your bios know whether it is Linux or BSD
> or whatver running?
For memory hotplug support.
Memory hotplug doesn't work on PRIMEQUEST when OSI(Linux) is disabled.
Best regards,
Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-26 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-29 10:34 BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored on PRIMEQUEST Taku Izumi
2008-05-23 6:36 ` [PATCH 0/2] ACPI: add "OSI(Linux) checking procedure" for ia64 machines Taku Izumi
2008-05-23 6:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] ACPI: add acpi_osi_dmi_table evaluation procedure " Taku Izumi
2008-05-23 6:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: add DMI info to enable OSI(Linux) on PRIMEQUEST Taku Izumi
2008-05-25 11:43 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-26 7:56 ` Taku Izumi [this message]
2008-05-26 8:06 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-27 1:13 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-05-27 2:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-27 23:20 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-27 23:41 ` Tony Luck
2008-05-27 23:50 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-28 4:04 ` Luck, Tony
2008-05-28 4:04 ` Luck, Tony
2008-05-28 0:09 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
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