From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Len Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] WMI patches for acpi-test (v2) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:03:30 -0500 Message-ID: <200802051603.30466.lenb@kernel.org> References: <20080205021658.4422.83165.stgit@pacifica> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:39123 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757035AbYBEVDw (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:03:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20080205021658.4422.83165.stgit@pacifica> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Carlos Corbacho Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Garrett , Alexey Starikovskiy , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Monday 04 February 2008 21:16, Carlos Corbacho wrote: > 2) Do you know of any IA64 systems using ACPI-WMI? At the moment, WMI will work > on x86 and hopefully IA64, but if it turns out that no vendor has or ever will > implement ACPI-WMI on IA64, then we could safely drop it there. I recommend skipping WMI on IA64 unless/until a real need to support it emerges. There are no WMI extensions on the Intel Tiger or Hitachi Fusion IA64 boxes I have access to. thanks, -Len