Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762353AbXKNVme (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:42:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753829AbXKNVmY (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:42:24 -0500 Received: from palrel11.hp.com ([156.153.255.246]:39859 "EHLO palrel11.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755714AbXKNVmX (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:42:23 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:42:21 -0700 From: Alex Chiang To: Greg KH Cc: Bjorn Helgaas , linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Kristen Carlson Accardi , gregkh@suse.de, lenb@kernel.org, matthew@wil.cx, rick.jones2@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects Message-ID: <20071114214221.GC6575@ldl.fc.hp.com> Mail-Followup-To: Alex Chiang , Greg KH , Bjorn Helgaas , linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Kristen Carlson Accardi , gregkh@suse.de, lenb@kernel.org, matthew@wil.cx, rick.jones2@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org References: <20071113000853.GA13341@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20071113202632.GA3227@kroah.com> <20071113145936.7e1c58fb.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> <200711141037.09228.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <20071114175317.GB14994@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071114175317.GB14994@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1027 Lines: 29 * Greg KH : > 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/