Re: ACPI & 2.4 (Re: [BK PATCH] PCI Express patches for 2.4.27-pre3)

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Wed May 26 2004 - 02:40:00 EST


On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 03:35:34AM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> Yes, the ACPI part to enable MMconfig was pretty small.
> We parse a table in the standard way and set a global variable --
> that's about it.
>
> I submitted it to 2.4 for the sole purpose
> to enable Greg to enable native PCIExpress.
>
> I expect demand for this in 2.4 as the major distros'
> enterprise releases are still 2.4 based and the hardware has
> arrived...

yet those enterprise releases won't go to newer 2.4 upstream releases....

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