Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Thunderbolt workarounds
From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Wed Jul 03 2013 - 14:45:14 EST
On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 11:33:11AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
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On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 07:29:00PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
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> Are there any plans to provide native support for the Thunderbolt
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> controller, rather than relying on system management mode?
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>
For what specific hardware platform? For the ones that this patchset
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controls, the OS doesn't have access to the Thunderbolt controller as
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far as I can tell, it all happens through the ACPI and PCI hotplug
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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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