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 -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
