linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: EuroBraille/Iris power off

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Message-ID: <4C8E4C0D.6010502@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:06:37 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Samuel Thibault <Samuel.Thibault@...-lyon.org>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	Shérab <Sebastien.Hinderer@...-lyon.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: EuroBraille/Iris power off

On 09/13/2010 08:22 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> Again, I'm not sure we really should try hard to make it automatically
> detected (and thus always enabled).  Having to pass a kernel parameter
> to enable the functionality is completely fine, since installing Linux
> on this device requires quite some tinkering already.
> 

Could you describe this kind of tinkering?

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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