Re: [ACPI] RE: PATCH/RFC: driver model/pmcore wakeup hooks (1/4)

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Tuesday 19 October 2004 04:11 am, Li, Shaohua wrote:
> A final solution is device core adds an ACPI layer. That is we can link
> ACPI device and physical device. This way, the PCI device can know which
> ACPI is linked with it, so the PCI API can use specific ACPI method. 
> You are right, we currently haven't a method to reach the goal. To match
> a physical device and ACPI device, we need to know the ACPI device's
> _ADR and bus.
> I have a toy to link the PCI device and ACPI device, and some PCI
> function can use _SxD method and _PSx method to get some information for
> suspend/resume.
> 

The only caveat is that PCI core should not depend on ACPI because it is not
available on all platforms, not all world is x86.

-- 
Dmitry
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