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From: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: add DMI info to enable OSI(Linux) on PRIMEQUEST
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 16:56:05 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <483A6D15.6030701@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080525114308.GA5237@ucw.cz>


Thank you for your response.

>> This patch adds DMI info to enable OSI(Linux) on 
>> PRIMEQUEST.
>> (PRIMEQUEST is ia64 machine.)
> 
> Why is it needed? Why needs your bios know whether it is Linux or BSD
> or whatver running?

   For memory hotplug support.
   Memory hotplug doesn't work on PRIMEQUEST when OSI(Linux) is disabled.

Best regards,
Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>


  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-26  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4816F9B9.3090609@jp.fujitsu.com>
2008-05-23  6:36 ` [PATCH 0/2] ACPI: add "OSI(Linux) checking procedure" for ia64 machines Taku Izumi
2008-05-23  6:39   ` [PATCH 1/2] ACPI: add acpi_osi_dmi_table evaluation procedure " Taku Izumi
2008-05-23  6:43   ` [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: add DMI info to enable OSI(Linux) on PRIMEQUEST Taku Izumi
2008-05-25 11:43     ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-26  7:56       ` Taku Izumi [this message]
2008-05-26  8:06         ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-27  1:13           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-05-27  2:05             ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-27 23:20     ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-27 23:41       ` Tony Luck
2008-05-27 23:50         ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-28  4:04           ` Luck, Tony
2008-05-28  0:09       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki

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