On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:05:50 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hp is providing a Hardware WatchDog Timer driver that will only work > with the specific HW Timer located in the HP ProLiant iLO 2 ASIC. The > iLO 2 HW Timer will generate a Non-maskable Interrupt (NMI) 9 seconds > before physically resetting the server, by removing power, so that > the event can be logged to the HP Integrated Management Log (IML), a > Non-Volatile Random Access Memory (NVRAM). The logging of the event > is performed using the HP ProLiant ROM via an Industry Standard > access known as a BIOS Service Directory Entry.
Hi, Your patch looks quite clean in general; however it does make me wonder if it should either leverage or expand the arch/x86/pci/pcbios.c infrastructure for doing BIOS32 calls and share that.... it's kinda unpleasant as a general thought to have drivers poke this deep into various guts of the system/bios.... esp if the common code has to do something very similar already. Greetings, Arjan van de Ven - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
