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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

  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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