Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Thunderbolt workarounds

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On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 11:33:11AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 07:29:00PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Are there any plans to provide native support for the Thunderbolt 
> > controller, rather than relying on system management mode?
> 
> For what specific hardware platform?  For the ones that this patchset
> controls, the OS doesn't have access to the Thunderbolt controller as
> far as I can tell, it all happens through the ACPI and PCI hotplug
> interface.

Given that there exist platforms without the SMM implementation, there's 
presumably either a controller or chipset register that controls whether 
SMIs are generated in response to Thunderbolt events.

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