From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Len Brown Subject: Re: ACPI memory hotplug driver Date: 17 Feb 2005 02:45:00 -0500 Message-ID: <1108626299.2096.491.camel@d845pe> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: "Tolentino, Matthew E" Cc: ACPI Developers , "S, Naveen B" List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.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 > Signed-off-by: Naveen B S > Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click