From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: dmi_scan on ia64
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:20:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051220192019.GC21868@lists.us.dell.com> (raw)
I recently noticed that the IPMI device driver (drivers/char/ipmi) has
converted from using it's own manual parsing of the BIOS-provided DMI
table to find the address of the IPMI controller, and instead now uses
the i386 implementation of arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c. This of
course broke IPMI device autodetection on x86_64 and ia64 which
weren't using the i386 code.
Andi Kleen worked up a patch (and now I can't find the mail reference
to it) for post-2.6.15 which enables arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c for
x86_64. It made a generic CONFIG_DMI option which could be set
per-arch for arches that support having DMI tables. I'd appreciate
it, if/when that hits the tree, that ia64 get similar changes. I'll
watch for it and try to submit a patch, but wanted others to be on the
lookout too.
Thanks,
Matt
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Matt Domsch
Software Architect
Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com
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