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

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Message-ID: <20070309112118.GC3925@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Fri, 9 Mar 2007 12:21:18 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	"Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@...el.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	Rudolf Marek <r.marek@...embler.cz>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	lm-sensors@...sensors.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Could the k8temp driver be interfering with ACPI?

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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