From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265622AbUEZPZW (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 May 2004 11:25:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265628AbUEZPZW (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 May 2004 11:25:22 -0400 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:17589 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265622AbUEZPZP (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 May 2004 11:25:15 -0400 Message-ID: <40B4ADA2.2020604@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 10:45:54 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: Len Brown , Marcelo Tosatti , Matthew Wilcox , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" Subject: Re: ACPI & 2.4 (Re: [BK PATCH] PCI Express patches for 2.4.27-pre3) References: <1085556934.26254.132.camel@dhcppc4> <20040526073752.GF6742@devserv.devel.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20040526073752.GF6742@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 03:35:34AM -0400, Len Brown wrote: > >>Yes, the ACPI part to enable MMconfig was pretty small. >>We parse a table in the standard way and set a global variable -- >>that's about it. >> >>I submitted it to 2.4 for the sole purpose >>to enable Greg to enable native PCIExpress. >> >>I expect demand for this in 2.4 as the major distros' >>enterprise releases are still 2.4 based and the hardware has >>arrived... > > > yet those enterprise releases won't go to newer 2.4 upstream releases.... Len is right in guessing enterprise releases want PCI Express support though :) Jeff