On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 02:01:16PM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > > > > I believe the code is leaning too heavily on the BIOS for stuff, > > and like lots of other parts of the kernel we'll need an alternate > > strategy for when things aren't "perfect". > > the pitfall for forcing pciehp when the BIOS hasn't provided OSC is that > you don't know for sure that you really have gained control of hot plug > operation properly. You can obviously try it, using the provide forcing > option as you have done, but the behavior is not predictable.
The bigger concern is whether this likely to break things on systems that *do* correctly implement ACPI support for PCIe hotplug? - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/