From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Monnier Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Could the k8temp driver be interfering with ACPI? Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:07:44 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20070218183805.5a4fd813.khali@linux-fr.org> <20070228213803.GA4877@ucw.cz> <20070301152655.f232db64.khali@linux-fr.org> <20070302114023.GD2163@elf.ucw.cz> <20070302114747.GB1212@srcf.ucam.org> <20070302151055.d2665d66.khali@linux-fr.org> <20070302141840.GA3441@srcf.ucam.org> <20070302220454.a0c66d04.khali@linux-fr.org> <20070302211251.GA10035@srcf.ucam.org> <20070303105316.d51e032d.khali@linux-fr.org> <20070305222548.GA4946@ucw.cz> <20070306162634.bcaaf0c7.khali@linux-fr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:37010 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932438AbXCFUkL (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:40:11 -0500 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HOgS1-0003NC-Ty for linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:40:01 +0100 Received: from bas1-montreal42-1242353373.dsl.bell.ca ([74.12.206.221]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:40:01 +0100 Received: from monnier by bas1-montreal42-1242353373.dsl.bell.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:40:01 +0100 Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org >> > Is there anything preventing us from doing such a walk and pre-allocate >> > all the I/O ranges? I am not familiar with the ACPI code at all, would >> > you possibly propose a patch doing that? >> >> ACPI AML is probably turing-complete: I'm afraid you are trying to >> solve the halting problem (-> impossible). > Can you please translate this into something mere humans like myself > have a chance to understand? Try wikipedia "Halting problem". Stefan