Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:00:22 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>, Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>,
       linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
       Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>, 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
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On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 02:42:21PM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> * Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>:
> > 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 the firmware kit break on them?

> Does Tivoli run on those machines? If so, how is it getting slot
> information?

I have no idea, I don't work for them :)

good luck,

greg k-h
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