* Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
