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Message-ID: <20071114180355.GB4265@srcf.ucam.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:03:56 +0000
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc: Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>, gregkh@...e.de,
kristen.c.accardi@...el.com, lenb@...nel.org, matthew@....cx,
rick.jones2@...com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
pcihpd-discuss@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 09:51:51AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 05:44:01PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Dumping raw ACPI tables isn't adequate - _SUN might be a complex ACPI
> > method with multiple reads and writes to raw hardware, and we really
> > don't want to do that in userspace. The only way to do this reliably is
> > in the kernel.
>
> But it really isn't, as the firmware kit has proven...
The firmware toolkit will only work if the _SUN method merely returns a
hardcoded value. The spec doesn't require that that be the case, and
it's easy to imagine situations where it won't.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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