On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 07:34:42PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 03:08:59PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > Use _RMV method to indicate whether device can be removed. > > > But Windows still shows device as removable in the gui and allows to > remove it, correct?
No. From "Designing Hardware for Surprise Removal under Windows XP" document: "An ACPI BIOS can override the Removable capability by using the _RMV method ..." > > +#define gen_pci_device(name, nr) \ > > + Device(SL##name) { \ > > + Name (_ADR, nr##0000) \ > > + Method (_RMV) { \ > > + If (And(\_SB.PCI0.PCRM, ShiftLeft(1, nr))) { \ > > + Return (0x1) \ > > + } \ > > + Return (0x0) \ > > + } \ > > + Name (_SUN, name) \ > > + } > Why not add this to hotplug_slot() macro? Because its ignored if declared in the device object thats a child of SB.PCI0 (hotplug_slot).