From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mikael Nilsson <mikael@nilsson.name>
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 21:08:39 +0000
Subject: Re: Belkin eSATA ExpressCard - no hotplug?
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lör 2007-08-04 klockan 22:39 +0200 skrev Mikael Nilsson:
> lör 2007-08-04 klockan 22:02 +0200 skrev Mikael Nilsson:
> > 
> > Please help, I'd really like to get this to work.
> 
> Noted in a comment on the Dell blog:
> 
> "Well, on my Inspiron e1505 nearly everything runs fine (albeit, with
> the binary blobs). Except Pci-Express hotplug support. I haven't noticed
> too many issues otherwise, thanks to the hard work of driver developers
> programming around whatever bugs/what not there are. But in this case,
> Dell just has plain left out the _OSC acpi functionatliy. Period, end of
> story. Therefor, I can't run the pciehp drivers so I can use my
> expresscard by hotplugging it. I just put in an email to the
> linux-desktop list, but if anyone else has a suggestion, please, by all
> means email me drizzt321 _at_ shackmail _dot_ com"
> 
> http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2006/11/01/3396.aspx#4485

More details here:

http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_bios&thread.id9969&view=by_date_ascending&page=1

        
        I am running Linux, with 2.6.19.1 kernel version, and I have
        been in contact with the intel engineer which maintains the
        pci-express hotplug support. He has specifically determined, and
        Dell has even admitted to me in chat and phone support, that the
        BIOS does not implement the features necessary for the hotplug
        support that the hardware supports.
        
        This is complete Dell, this is not what I wanted when I bought
        the hardware. Sure, maybe XP does work, but that is because it
        does not use the correct method because XP does not natively
        know anything about pci-express. However, Vista specifically
        _does_ use the correct _OSC method in order to hotplug
        pci-express devices (aka many expresscard devices). If you don't
        believe me, go read
        http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/bus/pci/BIOS_HotPlugPCIe.mspx which is a very good whitepaper.

/Mikael

> 
> 
> /Mikael 
> 
-- 
<mikael@nilsson.name>

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose


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