On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:49:35AM +1000, Francois Rigaut wrote: > Greg, > > I went ahead and contacted John Ronciak at intel. > He gave a presentation on thunderbolt at the 2011 linux plumber conference. > Here is his answer: > > "You are correct that most if not all issues related to Thunderbolt > on Linux is due to BIOS problems. We have not seen anything other > BIOS issues regarding Thunderbolt issues on Linux. When the BIOS is > working correctly the hot-plug PCIe works fine wrt the kernel. These > are things that cannot be fixed in the drivers or in kernel > infrastructure. So newer systems are going to be better than older > ones due to these BIOS issues." Thanks for letting us know, so there's nothing we can do for these machines, and we just have to hope the next-generation machines get this correct. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
