Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:31:08 -0700 | From | Alex Chiang <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5][RFC] Physical PCI slot objects |
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* Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>: > > The only reported _SUN problems on Dell systems were on the > PE6800 and PE6850 systems, which we've fixed with an updated > BIOS several months ago. IIRC the values weren't always unique > which kind of defeated the purpose.
FWIW, the ACPI 2.0 spec did not require uniqueness for _SUN. (although there is a strange table that refers to _SUN as the slot-unique ID (table 6-1 in spec v2.0b), the actual definition of _SUN does not mention uniqueness).
Uniqueness was first required in the 3.0 spec.
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