From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Domsch Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:29:44 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.15 1/2] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c Message-Id: <20060104232944.GA32250@lists.us.dell.com> List-Id: References: <20060104221627.GA26064@lists.us.dell.com> <1136414164.6198.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1136414164.6198.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Alex Williamson , Alan Cox Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 03:36:03PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 16:16 -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > > Andi Kleen has a patch in his x86_64 tree which enables the use of > > i386 dmi_scan.c on x86_64. dmi_scan.c functions are being used by the > > drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c driver for autodetecting the ports or > > memory spaces where the IPMI controllers may be found. > > Can't this be done via ACPI/EFI? I'm really opposed to adding > anything to ia64 that blindly picks memory ranges and starts scanning > for magic legacy tables. If nothing else, this can be found via > efi.smbios. Thanks, I'll redo this to use efi.smbios. Thanks for the tip. -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com