[ltp] Hotswap driver (supports DMA, etc etc)

[Alex Deucher]

On 2/21/06, Jim Duchek <jim.duchek@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >    Any chance of this being extended to address the ultrabase issue?
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> >    Ultrabase-X2 has an ultrabay, but the problem is a whole other ball =
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> >    To date, over the last 4 years, I've not found a way to dock with th=
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> > ultrabase and have it work if it wasn't docked at boot time.
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> Does the ultrabase show up in /proc/acpi/ibm/dock?
> And whether it does or does not, could you send me the output of:
> ls -R /sys/firmware/namespace/acpi/ ?

Have you looked into PCI bus enumeration?  the big docks have a PCI
bus on them which at the moment only works if you boot up docked.

Alex

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> Thanks,
> Jim
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