Yes BIOS (the firmware) did the resource allocation, which is very complicated and only specific to Thunderbolt hot-plug. But what's the difference to ASL code, which took care of platform specific implementation and provides abstracted (and not well documented) function call to OS?
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Re: Thunderbolt support is in Kernel 3.12
Date: 2014-01-08 12:55 am (UTC)