From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Domsch Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:37:40 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.15 1/2] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c Message-Id: <20060105173740.GA20650@lists.us.dell.com> List-Id: References: <20060104221627.GA26064@lists.us.dell.com> <1136414164.6198.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060104232944.GA32250@lists.us.dell.com> <200601050941.15915.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> In-Reply-To: <200601050941.15915.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Alex Williamson , Alan Cox , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 09:41:15AM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > The DMI scan looks like it's done in try_init_smbios(). But > try_init_acpi() is done first. Since every ia64 machine has > ACPI, I would think try_init_acpi() should be sufficient. > > Or do you have a machine that doesn't supply the SPMI > table used by try_init_acpi()? This system (Dell PowerEdge 7250, very very similar to an Intel 4-way Itanium2 server) doesn't have an SPMI table, but it does have the IPMI information in the SMBIOS table. -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com