Ignore the bottom bit of the base address from the DMI data. It is supposed to be set to 1 if it is I/O space. Few systems do this, but this enables the ones that do set it to work properly. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard Index: linux-2.6.12-rc2/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.12-rc2.orig/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c +++ linux-2.6.12-rc2/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c @@ -1654,7 +1654,13 @@ } } else { /* Old DMI spec. */ - ipmi_data->base_addr = base_addr; + /* Note that technically, the lower bit of the base + * address should be 1 if the address is I/O and 0 if + * the address is in memory. So many systems get that + * wrong (and all that I have seen are I/O) so we just + * ignore that bit and assume I/O. Systems that use + * memory should use the newer spec, anyway. */ + ipmi_data->base_addr = base_addr & 0xfffe; ipmi_data->addr_space = IPMI_IO_ADDR_SPACE; ipmi_data->offset = 1; }