From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753022AbZBDGPX (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 01:15:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750892AbZBDGPJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 01:15:09 -0500 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:42910 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751007AbZBDGPJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 01:15:09 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 06:15:05 +0000 From: Matthew Garrett To: Len Brown Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: make some IO ports off-limits to AML Message-ID: <20090204061505.GD28321@srcf.ucam.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on vavatch.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:59:43PM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > Start using this interface to prevent AML from accessing > some well known IO addresses that the OS "owns". It might be nice to extend this to cover the other ports listed at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/BIOSAML.mspx if (and only if) the firmware requested _OSI("Windows 2001") or later. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org