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From: Mark Lord
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix two PEIe hotplug issues
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2007 - 10:06 am

Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:


No big deal.  I personally don't have a distro to maintain,
so no pain for me here.


No, it just provides a way to use the hardware when the vendor
didn't include BIOS functionality for it.

These notebooks fully support hotplug in the external ExpressCard slot
(which is the *whole point* of an external slot), and according to Dell
they work just fine with that other OS.  I don't use the "other OS" here,
but the hardware also works just fine with Linux now.

I'm guessing they just left out the BIOS functionality because
it was one of the very first machines to market with such slots,
and the BIOS wasn't mature enough.   So they rely upon more easily
updated software drivers instead.  The only gotcha is they do specify
that booting from the slot is not possible (because no BIOS support).

Cheers
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[PATCH 0/3] Fix two PEIe hotplug issues, Mark Lord, (Wed Oct 17, 7:57 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/3] pciehp_handle_preinserted_card, Mark Lord, (Wed Oct 17, 7:59 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] pciehp_split_pcie_init, Mark Lord, (Wed Oct 17, 8:00 pm)
[PATCH 3/3] pciehp_resume_reinit_hardware, Mark Lord, (Wed Oct 17, 8:02 pm)
[PATCH 1/3] pciehp_handle_preinserted_card, Mark Lord, (Wed Oct 17, 8:03 pm)
[PATCH 2/3] pciehp_split_pcie_init, Mark Lord, (Wed Oct 17, 8:04 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix two PEIe hotplug issues, Mark Lord, (Wed Oct 17, 8:05 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix two PEIe hotplug issues, Mark Lord, (Wed Oct 17, 8:09 pm)
[PATCH 1/3] pciehp: hotplug: deal with pre-inserted Expres ..., Mark Lord, (Wed Oct 17, 8:32 pm)
[PATCH 2/3] pciehp: hotplug: split out hardware init from ..., Mark Lord, (Wed Oct 17, 8:33 pm)
[PATCH 3/3] pciehp: hotplug: reinit hotplug h/w on resume ..., Mark Lord, (Wed Oct 17, 8:34 pm)
Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] [PATCH 1/3] pciehp: hotplug: deal wit ..., Kenji Kaneshige, (Thu Oct 18, 4:15 am)
Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] [PATCH 1/3] pciehp: hotplug: deal wit ..., Mark Lord, (Thu Oct 18, 6:31 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix two PEIe hotplug issues, Kristen Carlson Accardi, (Thu Oct 18, 9:13 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix two PEIe hotplug issues, Kristen Carlson Accardi, (Thu Oct 18, 10:06 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix two PEIe hotplug issues, Mark Lord, (Thu Oct 18, 10:06 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix two PEIe hotplug issues, Theodore Tso, (Thu Oct 18, 10:49 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix two PEIe hotplug issues, Kristen Carlson Accardi, (Thu Oct 18, 10:56 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix two PEIe hotplug issues, Mark Lord, (Thu Oct 18, 2:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix two PEIe hotplug issues, Mark Lord, (Thu Oct 18, 2:26 pm)
Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] [PATCH 1/3] pciehp: hotplug: deal wit ..., Kenji Kaneshige, (Thu Oct 18, 7:38 pm)
Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] [PATCH 1/3] pciehp: hotplug: deal wit ..., Mark Lord, (Thu Oct 18, 8:09 pm)
Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] [PATCH 1/3] pciehp: hotplug: deal wit ..., Kenji Kaneshige, (Thu Oct 18, 8:27 pm)
[PATCH] Fix PCIe double initialization bug, Mark Lord, (Sat Nov 17, 5:27 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Fix PCIe double initialization bug, Rafael J. Wysocki, (Sun Nov 18, 5:23 am)
Re: [PATCH] Fix PCIe double initialization bug, Mark Lord, (Sun Nov 18, 7:37 am)