Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > Bjorn Helgaas wrote: >> On Thursday 15 February 2007 22:15, Corey Minyard wrote: >> >>> Bjorn Helgaas wrote: >>> >>>> On Saturday 10 February 2007 21:27, Len Brown wrote: >>>> >>>>> acpi_find_bmc() appears to be searching for multiple SPMI tables >>>>> in the RSDT and running >>>>> try_init_acpi() on each of them >>>>> until it doesn't find any more. >>>>> >>>> I can't remember why we look at the SPMI table(s) rather than >>>> registering a normal ACPI (or even PNP) driver. Unless we >>>> need to poke the BMC very early, wouldn't it be better to >>>> rely on the device description in the namespace? >>>> >>> For some strange reason the normal ACPI information does not >>> have all the information needed by the driver. It doesn't have >>> register size or spacing information. >>> >> >> I guess that would be a defect in the way ACPI is being used, >> wouldn't it? A PNP ID should define the device programming >> model, including things like register size and spacing. It >> sounds like somebody didn't define a new PNP ID when he should >> have. I wonder whether it's worth trying to fix this. >> >> > Yes, it is considered an ACPI fault. Could you please describe in > detail, which registers miss the information? And probably your > acpidump will help as well. I don't have a machine with an ACPI description of the BMC. I'll copy the mailing list to see if anyone has an ACPI-described BMC.
I don't know that much about ACPI, so maybe that information is described somehow in a way the IPMI spec doesn't talk about directly, like in the _CRS object. -Corey ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Openipmi-developer mailing list Openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
