RE: [PATCH v2 0/8] Thunderbolt workarounds
From: Ronciak, John
Date: Wed Jul 03 2013 - 15:57:32 EST
Are you talking about Apple platforms specifically?
Cheers,
John
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From: Matthew Garrett [mailto:mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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To: Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Yinghai Lu; Ronciak, John; Penner, Miles J; Allan, Bruce W; Heikki
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Thunderbolt workarounds
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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.
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Given that there exist platforms without the SMM implementation,
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there's presumably either a controller or chipset register that
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controls whether SMIs are generated in response to Thunderbolt events.
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