From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:36:33 +0000 Subject: Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] [PATCH 1/3] - Altix: Add initial ACPI IO Message-Id: <20061004173633.c193eafd.akpm@osdl.org> List-Id: References: <20061004214925.3193.26724.sendpatchset@attica.americas.sgi.com> <20061004225649.GB14395@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20061004225649.GB14395@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Greg KH Cc: John Keller , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 15:56:49 -0700 Greg KH 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.