Docks, Bays, and Ports
Speaker | Kristen Carlson Accardi, Intel |
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Time | 2007-01-18 09:00 |
Conference | LCA2007 |
Not just for oceans anymore.
Hotplug
ACPI
- ACPI routes events to driver
- 600+ pages in specification
- sends event for docking/undocking
- DSDT table
- Bus check event
- Device check event
- Eject event
- EJO/EJE - hotpluggable
- _DCK - dock
DST
Cold docking
- supported in 2.6.20 (best)
Warm docking
- suspend to disk first may not be supported
- broken in fact
removable drive bay - supported in 2.6.21
User space notifications - after 2.6.18
UDEV rules
SATA - no special ACPI support required (unlike PATA)