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From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn_helgaas@hp.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [ACPI] RE: [BK PATCH] ACPI updates
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 12:45:07 -0700
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On Monday 09 December 2002 12:17 pm, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 07:12:52PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 02:09:04PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > > Which machines do not work without the new ACPI code?
> > 
> > hp's zx1-based ia64 machines (my personal interest..) 
> 
> That one doesn't boot without other major patches anyway...

Apart from ACPI, the non-ia64 patches required to boot a zx1
should be relatively small: some IRQ changes, support in
memmap_init for discontiguous memory, etc.

Having a newer ACPI in 2.4.x (it currently has 20011018!)
would make things much easier for ia64.
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