Re: ACPI memory hotplug driver

[Len Brown <len.brown-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

applied to acpi-test.

thanks,
-Len

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 17:07, Tolentino, Matthew E wrote:
> This is a reposting of the ACPI memory hotplug driver posted by 
> Naveen a couple of months back.  This has been maintained in the 
> memory hotplug tree since then and unless there's additional 
> feedback resultant to this post, we're resubmitting it for 
> upstream inclusion.  Patch is against 2.6.11-rc1.
> 
> I also elaborated a bit in the Kconfig help section based on 
> Grant's post on the container driver over the weekend...  ;-)
> 
> matt
> 
> Below description also included at the top of the attached patch:
> 
> The ACPI based memory hot plug driver patch supports physical hotplug
> operations on memory. This driver fields notifications for memory add
> and remove operations from firmware and notifies the VM of the affected
> memory ranges. Accordingly, this driver also maintains and updates the
> states of all the memory ranges. This driver is useful on hardware which
> helps firmware generating ACPI events for every physical hotplug
> operation of memory boards on the system during runtime.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> Signed-off-by: Naveen B S <naveen.b.s-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
> 



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