FW: [RFC/Patch 0/12] ACPI based root bridge hot-add

FW: [RFC/Patch 0/12] ACPI based root bridge hot-add

[Rajesh Shah]

I just sent out a series of acpi based root bridge hot-add
patches. I realized that I didn't send the explanation to
all the mailing lists, sorry.

Rajesh

----- Forwarded message from Rajesh Shah <rajesh.shah@intel.com> -----

> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:38:57 -0800
> From: Rajesh Shah <rajesh.shah@intel.com>
> To: gregkh@suse.de
> Cc: linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
>         pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [RFC/Patch 0/12] ACPI based root bridge hot-add
> 
> Here is a series of patches to support ACPI hot-add of a root
> bridge hierarchy. The added hierarchy may contain other p2p 
> bridges and end/leaf I/O devices too. The root bridge itself is
> assumed to have been assigned resource ranges, but the p2p
> bridges and end devices are not required to be initialized by
> firmware. Most of the code changes are to make the existing code
> flows suitable for such a hierarchy of bridges & devices.
> 
> This code supports hot-add on ia64 only for now.It does not yet
> support I/O APIC hot-add, which is needed to make this fully
> functional.  The patches are against 2.6.11-mm4 (plus the patch 
> needed for ia64 to boot). I've tested to make sure this does not 
> break end/leaf device hotplug on the hotplug capable ia64 box I have.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rajesh

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