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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:56:49 +0000
Subject: Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] [PATCH 1/3] - Altix: Add initial ACPI IO support
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To: John Keller <jpk@sgi.com>
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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?

> Resend #2 - resync with TOT

"TOT"?

thanks,

greg k-h