From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757415AbYKLXj6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:39:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755708AbYKLXef (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:34:35 -0500 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:52646 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756171AbYKLXee (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:34:34 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:34:30 +0000 From: Matthew Garrett To: Alan Jenkins Cc: linux-kernel , linux-pci@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Add option to passively listen for PCIE hotplug events Message-ID: <20081112233430.GA22893@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20081104124706.GB19401@srcf.ucam.org> <20081104133214.GA20427@srcf.ucam.org> <49105BA6.9090403@tuffmail.co.uk> <20081104143332.GA21689@srcf.ucam.org> <491063B3.4080808@tuffmail.co.uk> <20081104151128.GA22544@srcf.ucam.org> <49106DD7.9010307@tuffmail.co.uk> <20081104155722.GA23314@srcf.ucam.org> <491076BD.1030704@tuffmail.co.uk> <49170B16.4010909@tuffmail.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49170B16.4010909@tuffmail.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on vavatch.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ok, from looking at the Microsoft docs (http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/c/5/9c5b2167-8017-4bae-9fde-d599bac8184a/BIOS_PCIe_HotPlug.doc) I suspect this is the wrong way to go - they make it sound like native PCIe hotplug is only supported in Vista and later, so we probably ought to be doing something with ACPI instead. I'll look into that later this week. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org