Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750708AbWAERyX (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 12:54:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751876AbWAERyW (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 12:54:22 -0500 Received: from atlrel9.hp.com ([156.153.255.214]:15065 "EHLO atlrel9.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750708AbWAERyV (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 12:54:21 -0500 From: Bjorn Helgaas To: Matt Domsch Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.15 1/2] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:54:18 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 Cc: Alex Williamson , Alan Cox , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060104221627.GA26064@lists.us.dell.com> <200601050941.15915.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <20060105173740.GA20650@lists.us.dell.com> In-Reply-To: <20060105173740.GA20650@lists.us.dell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601051054.18867.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1075 Lines: 25 On Thursday 05 January 2006 10:37, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 09:41:15AM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > The DMI scan looks like it's done in try_init_smbios(). But > > try_init_acpi() is done first. Since every ia64 machine has > > ACPI, I would think try_init_acpi() should be sufficient. > > > > Or do you have a machine that doesn't supply the SPMI > > table used by try_init_acpi()? > > This system (Dell PowerEdge 7250, very very similar to an Intel > 4-way Itanium2 server) doesn't have an SPMI table, but it does have > the IPMI information in the SMBIOS table. But the IPMI device *should* be described in the ACPI namespace, so using acpi_bus_register_driver() should be sufficient. I think that would be a better approach than using the SMBIOS table. But it is certainly a lot more work :-( Bjorn - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/