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Message-Id: <20061004173633.c193eafd.akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 17:36:33 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc: John Keller <jpk@....com>, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
pcihpd-discuss@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] [PATCH 1/3] - Altix: Add initial ACPI IO
support
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 15:56:49 -0700
Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
> 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?
A bunch of other stuff got merged out of order this morning and broke your
tree. I asked John for a rediff. Check your inbox ;)
> > Resend #2 - resync with TOT
>
> "TOT"?
tip-of-tree.
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