From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Domsch Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:20:19 +0000 Subject: dmi_scan on ia64 Message-Id: <20051220192019.GC21868@lists.us.dell.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org I recently noticed that the IPMI device driver (drivers/char/ipmi) has converted from using it's own manual parsing of the BIOS-provided DMI table to find the address of the IPMI controller, and instead now uses the i386 implementation of arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c. This of course broke IPMI device autodetection on x86_64 and ia64 which weren't using the i386 code. Andi Kleen worked up a patch (and now I can't find the mail reference to it) for post-2.6.15 which enables arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c for x86_64. It made a generic CONFIG_DMI option which could be set per-arch for arches that support having DMI tables. I'd appreciate it, if/when that hits the tree, that ia64 get similar changes. I'll watch for it and try to submit a patch, but wanted others to be on the lookout too. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com