On Mon 2008-05-26 16:56:05, Taku Izumi wrote: > > Thank you for your response. > >>> This patch adds DMI info to enable OSI(Linux) on PRIMEQUEST. >>> (PRIMEQUEST is ia64 machine.) >> >> Why is it needed? Why needs your bios know whether it is Linux or BSD >> or whatver running? > > For memory hotplug support. > Memory hotplug doesn't work on PRIMEQUEST when OSI(Linux) is disabled. So fix the BIOS: there's no reason why memory hotplug should not work on BSD or Windows... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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
