On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 02:42:21PM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote: > * 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 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 - 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
