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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: John Keller <jpk@sgi.com>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] [PATCH 1/3] - Altix: Add initial ACPI IO
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:36:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061004173633.c193eafd.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061004225649.GB14395@kroah.com>

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 15:56:49 -0700
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 04:49:25PM -0500, John Keller wrote:
> > First phase in introducing ACPI support to SN.
> > In this phase, when running with an ACPI capable PROM,
> > the DSDT will define the root busses and all SN nodes
> > (SGIHUB, SGITIO). An ACPI bus driver will be registered
> > for the node devices, with the acpi_pci_root_driver being
> > used for the root busses. An ACPI vendor descriptor is
> > now used to pass platform specific information for both
> > nodes and busses, eliminating the need for the current
> > SAL calls. Also, with ACPI support, SN fixup code is no longer
> > needed to initiate the PCI bus scans, as the acpi_pci_root_driver
> > does that.
> 
> How do these three patches differ from the ones I added to my tree
> yesterday?

A bunch of other stuff got merged out of order this morning and broke your
tree.  I asked John for a rediff.  Check your inbox ;)

> > Resend #2 - resync with TOT
> 
> "TOT"?

tip-of-tree.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-05  0:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-01 16:01 [PATCH 1/3] - Altix: Add initial ACPI IO support John Keller
2006-09-22 14:51 ` John Keller
2006-10-01  7:15   ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-02 19:02     ` John Keller
2006-10-03 14:56 ` John Keller
2006-10-04 21:49 ` John Keller
2006-10-04 22:56   ` [Pcihpd-discuss] " Greg KH
2006-10-05  0:36     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-10-05 13:10     ` John Keller

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