On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:59:43PM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > > > Start using this interface to prevent AML from accessing > > some well known IO addresses that the OS "owns". > > It might be nice to extend this to cover the other ports listed at > http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/BIOSAML.mspx if (and only if) the > firmware requested _OSI("Windows 2001") or later. Right. We reverted this initialization-time check for 2.6.29 b/c it had false positives of opregions that were never used. For 2.6.30 we replaced it with a run-time check, and the check follows the compatibility rules referenced above. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=7f0719039085cc40114abce84cf29fe57da226f4 cheers, Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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
