Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: add DMI info to enable OSI(Linux) on PRIMEQUEST

Pavel Machek
2008-05-26T08:06:14Z

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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