From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Delvare Subject: Re: ACPI requesting I/O ports? Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 10:21:42 +0100 Message-ID: <20070303102142.6d1ed107.khali@linux-fr.org> References: <20070302221439.e9a67df5.khali@linux-fr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp-106-saturday.nerim.net ([62.4.16.106]:2665 "EHLO kraid.nerim.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751288AbXCCJYG (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Mar 2007 04:24:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "Moore, Robert" Cc: "Brown, Len" , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Pavel Machek Hi Robert, On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 14:05:45 -0800, Moore, Robert wrote: > Port addresses can be dynamically generated by the AML code and thus, > there is no way that the ACPI subsystem can statically predict any > addresses that will be accessed by the AML. Can you please explain in greater details how "dynamical" it is? Any real world example you could present? Also, you say that port addresses _can_ be dynamically generated, which suggests that some are not, so the ACPI subsystem could at least properly request these ones? Thanks, -- Jean Delvare