Re: [lm-sensors] Could the k8temp driver be interfering with ACPI?

Pavel Machek
2007-03-09T11:21:33Z

Hi!

> >>Can you take this as a wishlist item?
> >>
> >>It would be nice if next version of acpi specs supported table
> >>
> >>'AML / SMM BIOS will access these ports'
> >>
> >>...so we can get it correct with acpi4 or something..?
> >>
> >
> >I can only second Pavel's wish here. This would be highly convenient
> >for OS developers to at least know which resources are accessed by AML
> >and SMM. Without this information, we can never be sure that OS-level
> >code won't conflict with ACPI or SMM.
> >
> >
> BIOS vendors are not required to support latest and greatest ACPI spec.
> So even if some future spec version
> will include this ports description, we will still have majority of
> hardware not exporting it...

That's okay... vendors are not required to support _ACPI_, but they
mostly do. Can we get the "ports used by BIOS" table to the spec?
Pavel
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