From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754926AbYEZIFl (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 04:05:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753463AbYEZIFZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 04:05:25 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:58008 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753458AbYEZIFY (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 04:05:24 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 10:06:14 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Taku Izumi Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: add DMI info to enable OSI(Linux) on PRIMEQUEST Message-ID: <20080526080614.GA28147@elf.ucw.cz> References: <4816F9B9.3090609@jp.fujitsu.com> <4836660B.3080406@jp.fujitsu.com> <483667A4.9000606@jp.fujitsu.com> <20080525114308.GA5237@ucw.cz> <483A6D15.6030701@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <483A6D15.6030701@jp.fujitsu.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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