Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects

Alex Chiang
2007-11-13T21:31:14Z

* Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>:
>
> The only reported _SUN problems on Dell systems were on the
> PE6800 and PE6850 systems, which we've fixed with an updated
> BIOS several months ago. IIRC the values weren't always unique
> which kind of defeated the purpose.

FWIW, the ACPI 2.0 spec did not require uniqueness for _SUN.
(although there is a strange table that refers to _SUN as the
slot-unique ID (table 6-1 in spec v2.0b), the actual definition
of _SUN does not mention uniqueness).

Uniqueness was first required in the 3.0 spec.

/ac