From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: "Zhao, Yakui" <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Mahlknecht <mali100@gmx.net>,
"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ACPI reads wrong temperature
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 14:57:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081103145723.GB496@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9F0C1DB20AFA954FA1DA05309350433D3E5CA72D@pdsmsx503.ccr.corp.intel.com>
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:50:27PM +0800, Zhao, Yakui wrote:
> Thanks for the info.
> From the attached info we can know that the I/O start address for SMbus is 0x18E0. And SMbus is internally used in AML code.
>
> If the I2C-i801 driver is loaded, there is the conflict between BIOS and OS.
>
> So I think that it is a BIOS bug. And this can't be fixed by Linux-kernel.
I don't think the BIOS is doing anything wrong here. It's entitled to
assume that the operating system won't load drivers for hardware it's
not declaring.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-03 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-31 14:02 ACPI reads wrong temperature Peter Mahlknecht
2008-10-31 14:30 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-10-31 21:09 ` Peter Mahlknecht
2008-11-02 9:25 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-02 11:31 ` Peter Mahlknecht
2008-11-03 2:05 ` Zhao Yakui
2008-11-03 9:01 ` Peter Mahlknecht
2008-11-03 14:50 ` Zhao, Yakui
2008-11-03 14:57 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2008-11-03 17:47 ` Len Brown
2008-11-03 17:48 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-06 6:12 ` Zhao Yakui
2008-11-06 9:11 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-12 22:20 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-11-12 22:27 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-13 10:24 ` Jean Delvare
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