On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 23:02 -0500, Mike Houston wrote: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:31:27 +0800 > Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This should exist in previous kernel (before we remove acpi > > motherboard driver) too. Basically it's a broken BIOS. Could below > > patch work around it? > > > > Thanks, > > Shaohua > > > > Index: linux/drivers/pnp/system.c > > =================================================================== > > --- linux.orig/drivers/pnp/system.c 2007-12-10 > > 10:17:46.000000000 +0800 +++ linux/drivers/pnp/system.c > > Thanks Shaohua, I tested this as well and it appears to have worked > around the issue for me. > > Now, in dmesg, I get: > > system 00:01: ioport range 0x290-0x29f has been reserved > (...) > system 00:01: ioport range 0x290-0x294 could not be reserved > > In /proc/ioports I see: > > 0290-029f : pnp 00:01 > 0290-0297 : it87 > 0290-0297 : it87 Unfortunately this can't solve all such issues. Adam & Bjorn, Could we just reserve IO ports >= 0x1000 in pnp system driver? The purpose of the driver is to avoid resource conflict with PCI device, and PCI device can't user io port < 0x1000. Thanks, Shaohua - 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
