From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: add DMI info to enable OSI(Linux) on PRIMEQUEST
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 10:06:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080526080614.GA28147@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <483A6D15.6030701@jp.fujitsu.com>
On Mon 2008-05-26 16:56:05, Taku Izumi wrote:
>
> Thank you for your response.
>
>>> This patch adds DMI info to enable OSI(Linux) on PRIMEQUEST.
>>> (PRIMEQUEST is ia64 machine.)
>>
>> Why is it needed? Why needs your bios know whether it is Linux or BSD
>> or whatver running?
>
> For memory hotplug support.
> Memory hotplug doesn't work on PRIMEQUEST when OSI(Linux) is disabled.
So fix the BIOS: there's no reason why memory hotplug should not work
on BSD or Windows...
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-26 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-29 10:34 BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored on PRIMEQUEST Taku Izumi
2008-05-23 6:36 ` [PATCH 0/2] ACPI: add "OSI(Linux) checking procedure" for ia64 machines Taku Izumi
2008-05-23 6:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] ACPI: add acpi_osi_dmi_table evaluation procedure " Taku Izumi
2008-05-23 6:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: add DMI info to enable OSI(Linux) on PRIMEQUEST Taku Izumi
2008-05-25 11:43 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-26 7:56 ` Taku Izumi
2008-05-26 8:06 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-05-27 1:13 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-05-27 2:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-27 23:20 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-27 23:41 ` Tony Luck
2008-05-27 23:50 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-28 4:04 ` Luck, Tony
2008-05-28 0:09 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
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