Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects

Alex Chiang
2007-11-14T21:42:34Z

* Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 10:37:08AM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> >
> > So I agree that the firmware kit has a clever hack that works
> > on much existing x86 firmware, and it sounds like Tivoli
> > might even rely on it. But I don't feel good about it, and
> > it could easily break when some BIOS writer needs to make
> > _SUN slightly more complicated.
>
> Do you know of such BIOSes out there that do this? Will the
> above scheme not work for the ia64 boxes that you know of that
> are out in the world today?

One last mail on this subject -- Bjorn has pointed out to me that
the Dell pe6800 and rez1850 both implement _SUN as control
methods today.

Does Tivoli run on those machines? If so, how is it getting slot
information?

Thanks.

/ac