Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964812AbWA3RLd (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:11:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964810AbWA3RLd (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:11:33 -0500 Received: from ausc60pc101.us.dell.com ([143.166.85.206]:51320 "EHLO ausc60pc101.us.dell.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964797AbWA3RLb (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:11:31 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.01,235,1136181600"; d="scan'208"; a="373551669:sNHT1136249446" Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:11:31 -0600 From: Matt Domsch To: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@osdl.org, "Tolentino, Matthew E" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH 0/5] ia64 ioremap, DMI, EFI system table Message-ID: <20060130171131.GA24947@lists.us.dell.com> References: <20060104221627.GA26064@lists.us.dell.com> <200601181029.46352.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <20060118181116.GA5537@lists.us.dell.com> <200601191310.57303.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200601191310.57303.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1589 Lines: 42 On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:10:57PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > OK, here's a set of patches to (hopefully) clean up this area > a bit: > > 1 Simplify efi_mem_attribute_range() so I can use it both for > /dev/mem validation and ioremap() attribute checking. > > 2 Make ia64 ioremap() check memory attributes, so it works for > plain memory that only supports write-back access, as well as > for MMIO space that only supports uncacheable access. > > 3 DMI ioremaps too much space, which makes it fail on machines > where the SMBIOS table is near the end of a memory region. > > 4 Keep EFI table addresses as physical, not virtual. The SMBIOS > address was physical on x86 but virtual on ia64, which broke > dmi_scan_machine(). > > 5 Use smarter ioremap() implementation to remove some cruft in > acpi_os_{read,write,map}_memory(). This one's just an optional > cleanup; I don't think it fixes any bugs. This set of patches works for me on my IA64 Tiger4 (Dell PowerEdge 7250) in kernel 2.6.16-rc1-mm4. modprobe ipmi_si successfully automatically finds the IPMI controller now. Thanks Bjorn for doing a more complete cleanup in support of this! Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com - 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/