RE: [PATCH v2 0/8] Thunderbolt workarounds

[Ronciak, John]

Are you talking about Apple platforms specifically?

Cheers,
John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Garrett [mailto:mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 11:45 AM
> To: Greg Kroah-Hartman
> Cc: Mika Westerberg; Bjorn Helgaas; Wysocki, Rafael J; Jesse Barnes;
> Yinghai Lu; Ronciak, John; Penner, Miles J; Allan, Bruce W; Heikki
> Krogerus; Kirill A. Shutemov; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-pci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; x86@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Thunderbolt workarounds
> 
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 11:33:11AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 07:29:00PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > Are there any plans to provide native support for the Thunderbolt
> > > controller, rather than relying on system management mode?
> >
> > For what specific hardware platform?  For the ones that this patchset
> > controls, the OS doesn't have access to the Thunderbolt controller as
> > far as I can tell, it all happens through the ACPI and PCI hotplug
> > interface.
> 
> Given that there exist platforms without the SMM implementation,
> there's presumably either a controller or chipset register that
> controls whether SMIs are generated in response to Thunderbolt events.
> 
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> Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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