On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:50:27PM +0800, Zhao, Yakui wrote: > Thanks for the info. > From the attached info we can know that the I/O start address for SMbus is 0x18E0. And SMbus is internally used in AML code. > > If the I2C-i801 driver is loaded, there is the conflict between BIOS and OS. > > So I think that it is a BIOS bug. And this can't be fixed by Linux-kernel. I don't think the BIOS is doing anything wrong here. It's entitled to assume that the operating system won't load drivers for hardware it's not declaring. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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