From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de,
openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@osdl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.15 1/2] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:29:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060104232944.GA32250@lists.us.dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1136414164.6198.36.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 03:36:03PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 16:16 -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > Andi Kleen has a patch in his x86_64 tree which enables the use of
> > i386 dmi_scan.c on x86_64. dmi_scan.c functions are being used by the
> > drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c driver for autodetecting the ports or
> > memory spaces where the IPMI controllers may be found.
>
> Can't this be done via ACPI/EFI? I'm really opposed to adding
> anything to ia64 that blindly picks memory ranges and starts scanning
> for magic legacy tables. If nothing else, this can be found via
> efi.smbios. Thanks,
I'll redo this to use efi.smbios. Thanks for the tip.
--
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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From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de,
openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@osdl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.15 1/2] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:29:44 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060104232944.GA32250@lists.us.dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1136414164.6198.36.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 03:36:03PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 16:16 -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > Andi Kleen has a patch in his x86_64 tree which enables the use of
> > i386 dmi_scan.c on x86_64. dmi_scan.c functions are being used by the
> > drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c driver for autodetecting the ports or
> > memory spaces where the IPMI controllers may be found.
>
> Can't this be done via ACPI/EFI? I'm really opposed to adding
> anything to ia64 that blindly picks memory ranges and starts scanning
> for magic legacy tables. If nothing else, this can be found via
> efi.smbios. Thanks,
I'll redo this to use efi.smbios. Thanks for the tip.
--
Matt Domsch
Software Architect
Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-04 23:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-04 22:16 [PATCH 2.6.15 1/2] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c Matt Domsch
2006-01-04 22:16 ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-04 22:36 ` Alex Williamson
2006-01-04 22:36 ` Alex Williamson
2006-01-04 23:29 ` Matt Domsch [this message]
2006-01-04 23:29 ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-05 16:41 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-05 16:41 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-05 17:37 ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-05 17:37 ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-05 17:54 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-05 17:54 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-06 0:02 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-06 0:02 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-06 17:15 ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-06 17:15 ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-04 22:55 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-06 17:21 ` [PATCH 2.6.15] " Matt Domsch
2006-01-06 17:21 ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-06 19:03 ` Tolentino, Matthew E
2006-01-06 19:03 ` Tolentino, Matthew E
2006-01-06 22:36 ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-06 22:36 ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-06 22:39 ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-06 22:39 ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-14 0:24 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-14 0:24 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-14 0:45 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-14 1:19 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-14 1:19 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-14 5:05 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-14 5:05 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-18 0:17 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-18 0:17 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-18 2:32 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-18 2:32 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-18 15:53 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-18 15:53 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-18 17:29 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-18 17:29 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-18 18:11 ` [Openipmi-developer] " Matt Domsch
2006-01-18 18:11 ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-19 20:10 ` [PATCH 0/5] ia64 ioremap, DMI, EFI system table Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:10 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:10 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:12 ` [PATCH 1/5] EFI, /dev/mem: simplify efi_mem_attribute_range() Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:12 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:12 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:12 ` [PATCH 2/5] ia64: ioremap: check EFI for valid memory attributes Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:12 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:12 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:13 ` [PATCH 3/5] DMI: only ioremap stuff we actually need Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:13 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:13 ` [PATCH 4/5] EFI: keep physical table addresses in efi structure Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:13 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:14 ` [PATCH 5/5] ACPI: clean up memory attribute checking for map/read/write Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:14 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:14 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-30 17:11 ` [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH 0/5] ia64 ioremap, DMI, EFI system table Matt Domsch
2006-01-30 17:11 ` Matt Domsch
2006-03-17 23:54 ` [PATCH 2.6.15] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c Andrew Morton
2006-03-17 23:54 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-18 14:56 ` Matt Domsch
2006-03-18 14:56 ` Matt Domsch
2006-03-18 15:43 ` Matt Domsch
2006-03-18 15:43 ` Matt Domsch
2006-03-18 19:51 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-18 19:51 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-19 14:19 ` Tolentino, Matthew E
2006-01-19 14:19 ` Tolentino, Matthew E
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