From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:03:30 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] WMI patches for acpi-test (v2)
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To: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>, Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@gmail.com>, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org

On Monday 04 February 2008 21:16, Carlos Corbacho wrote:

> 2) Do you know of any IA64 systems using ACPI-WMI? At the moment, WMI will work
> on x86 and hopefully IA64, but if it turns out that no vendor has or ever will
> implement ACPI-WMI on IA64, then we could safely drop it there.

I recommend skipping WMI on IA64 unless/until a real need to support it emerges.
There are no WMI extensions on the Intel Tiger or Hitachi Fusion IA64 boxes I have access to.

thanks,
-Len