From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, "Luck,
Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] ia64: add driver for ACPI methods to call native firmware
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:48:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070912094857.GD4119@fattire.cabal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070912085650.GA3015@srcf.ucam.org>
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 09:56:51AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 05:16:46PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > +config IA64_HP_AML_NFW
> > + tristate "Support ACPI AML calls to native firmware"
>
> The description seems a bit generic for something that's HP specific?
>
It's within arch/ia64/Kconfig, so it will only show up on IA64 boxes...
It's possible that Altix or Intel IA64 boxes will want to make SAL calls
from ACPI, so it looks ok...
--Kyle
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-12 10:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-11 23:14 [RFC] module to support ACPI AML calls to native firmware Bjorn Helgaas
2007-09-11 23:15 ` [patch 1/2] ia64: change SAL wrappers from macros to functions and export them Bjorn Helgaas
2007-09-11 23:16 ` [patch 2/2] ia64: add driver for ACPI methods to call native firmware Bjorn Helgaas
2007-09-12 8:56 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-09-12 9:48 ` Kyle McMartin [this message]
2007-09-12 16:50 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-09-13 23:11 ` [RFC] module to support ACPI AML calls to " Bjorn Helgaas
2007-09-18 23:53 ` Luck, Tony
2007-09-19 15:49 ` Bjorn Helgaas
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2007-09-20 20:20 driver " Bjorn Helgaas
2007-09-20 20:22 ` [patch 2/2] ia64: add driver for ACPI methods to call " Bjorn Helgaas
2007-09-21 1:03 ` Len Brown
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