From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bjorn Helgaas Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:35:54 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] WMI patches for acpi-test (v2) Message-Id: <200802051735.55106.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> List-Id: References: <20080205021658.4422.83165.stgit@pacifica> <200802051603.30466.lenb@kernel.org> <200802052118.02733.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200802052118.02733.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Carlos Corbacho Cc: Len Brown , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Garrett , Alexey Starikovskiy , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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