Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] [PATCH 1/3] - Altix: Add initial ACPI IO support

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Oct 04 2006 - 18:57:14 EST


On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 04:49:25PM -0500, John Keller wrote:
> First phase in introducing ACPI support to SN.
> In this phase, when running with an ACPI capable PROM,
> the DSDT will define the root busses and all SN nodes
> (SGIHUB, SGITIO). An ACPI bus driver will be registered
> for the node devices, with the acpi_pci_root_driver being
> used for the root busses. An ACPI vendor descriptor is
> now used to pass platform specific information for both
> nodes and busses, eliminating the need for the current
> SAL calls. Also, with ACPI support, SN fixup code is no longer
> needed to initiate the PCI bus scans, as the acpi_pci_root_driver
> does that.

How do these three patches differ from the ones I added to my tree
yesterday?

> Resend #2 - resync with TOT

"TOT"?

thanks,

greg k-h
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/