From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Could the k8temp driver be interfering with ACPI? Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 12:21:18 +0100 Message-ID: <20070309112118.GC3925@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20070302220454.a0c66d04.khali@linux-fr.org> <20070309071855.GA5148@ucw.cz> <20070309112420.42420cf2.khali@linux-fr.org> <45F13965.2030709@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:42667 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767197AbXCILVa (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 06:21:30 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45F13965.2030709@linux.intel.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Alexey Starikovskiy Cc: Jean Delvare , "Moore, Robert" , Matthew Garrett , Chuck Ebbert , Rudolf Marek , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel , lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org Hi! > >>Can you take this as a wishlist item? > >> > >>It would be nice if next version of acpi specs supported table > >> > >>'AML / SMM BIOS will access these ports' > >> > >>...so we can get it correct with acpi4 or something..? > >> > > > >I can only second Pavel's wish here. This would be highly convenient > >for OS developers to at least know which resources are accessed by AML > >and SMM. Without this information, we can never be sure that OS-level > >code won't conflict with ACPI or SMM. > > > > > BIOS vendors are not required to support latest and greatest ACPI spec. > So even if some future spec version > will include this ports description, we will still have majority of > hardware not exporting it... That's okay... vendors are not required to support _ACPI_, but they mostly do. Can we get the "ports used by BIOS" table to the spec? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html