From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: add DMI info to enable OSI(Linux) on PRIMEQUEST Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 10:06:14 +0200 Message-ID: <20080526080614.GA28147@elf.ucw.cz> References: <4816F9B9.3090609@jp.fujitsu.com> <4836660B.3080406@jp.fujitsu.com> <483667A4.9000606@jp.fujitsu.com> <20080525114308.GA5237@ucw.cz> <483A6D15.6030701@jp.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <483A6D15.6030701@jp.fujitsu.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Taku Izumi Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org 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 -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html