From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
minyard@mvista.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: acpi_find_bmc() and acpi_get_table()
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:15:10 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45D53DDE.5000300@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702152103.54960.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Saturday 10 February 2007 21:27, Len Brown wrote:
>
>> acpi_find_bmc() appears to be searching for
>> multiple SPMI tables in the RSDT and running
>> try_init_acpi() on each of them
>> until it doesn't find any more.
>>
>
> I can't remember why we look at the SPMI table(s) rather than
> registering a normal ACPI (or even PNP) driver. Unless we
> need to poke the BMC very early, wouldn't it be better to
> rely on the device description in the namespace?
>
For some strange reason the normal ACPI information does not
have all the information needed by the driver. It doesn't have
register size or spacing information.
-Corey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-16 5:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-11 4:27 acpi_find_bmc() and acpi_get_table() Len Brown
2007-02-11 4:53 ` Corey Minyard
2007-02-11 5:28 ` Len Brown
2007-02-16 4:03 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-02-16 5:15 ` Corey Minyard [this message]
2007-02-20 4:31 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-02-20 6:46 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-02-20 13:55 ` Corey Minyard
2007-02-25 21:59 ` Matt Domsch
2007-02-26 18:30 ` Jordan_Hargrave
2007-02-26 19:32 ` [Openipmi-developer] " Bjorn Helgaas
2007-02-26 20:06 ` Jordan_Hargrave
2007-02-26 22:39 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-02-28 21:42 ` Corey Minyard
2007-02-28 22:05 ` Jordan_Hargrave
2007-02-28 22:35 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-02-28 22:44 ` Corey Minyard
2007-04-13 17:44 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-04-17 22:50 ` Corey Minyard
2007-04-18 15:32 ` [Openipmi-developer] " Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-18 16:49 ` Jordan_Hargrave
2007-07-18 19:19 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-19 16:32 ` [Openipmi-developer] " Jordan_Hargrave
2007-07-19 18:50 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-07-17 18:32 ` [Openipmi-developer] " Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-20 14:11 ` Corey Minyard
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