Re: ACPI & 2.4 (Re: [BK PATCH] PCI Express patches for 2.4.27-pre3)

[Jeff Garzik]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 03:35:34AM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
>
> > Yes, the ACPI part to enable MMconfig was pretty small.
> > We parse a table in the standard way and set a global variable --
> > that's about it.
> >
> > I submitted it to 2.4 for the sole purpose
> > to enable Greg to enable native PCIExpress.
> >
> > I expect demand for this in 2.4 as the major distros'
> > enterprise releases are still 2.4 based and the hardware has
> > arrived... 
>
>
> yet those enterprise releases won't go to newer 2.4 upstream releases....


Len is right in guessing enterprise releases want PCI Express support 
though :)

	Jeff


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