From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
To: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@gmail.com>,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] WMI patches for acpi-test (v2)
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:35:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802051735.55106.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200802052118.02733.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 02:18:01 pm Carlos Corbacho wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 February 2008 21:03:30 Len Brown wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Ok. The only other vendors I really have in mind are HP and Fujitsu, since
> both those vendors use WMI on their laptops, so they would be my most likely
> candidates to have WMI on an IA64 box (if anyone actually does use WMI on
> IA64).
How could I tell whether our HP systems use WMI?
Bjorn
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2008-02-05 21:03 ` [PATCH 0/5] WMI patches for acpi-test (v2) Len Brown
2008-02-05 21:18 ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-02-06 0:35 ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2008-02-06 2:03 ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-02-06 6:30 ` Bjorn Helgaas
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