On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 05:43:22PM +0800, ykzhao wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 14:02 +0800, Crane Cai wrote: > > This driver supports the SMBus Control Method Interface. It needs BIOS declare > > ACPI control methods via SMBus Control Method Interface Spec. > It seems that SM bus control is realized in BIOS. And OS can use the > given control method interface to access it. > Will this controller be accessed directly directly BIOS? > If it can be accessed by BIOS, how to resolve the conflict between BIOS > and OS? It's being accessed via ACPI methods, so the vendors have the opportunity to implement proper locking. > In fact we see the conflict on some boxes. The SMbus controller will be > accessed by BIOS. If the corresponding driver is loaded for the SMBUS > controller, there exists the potential risk. In such case we will hide > the SMbus controller or not load the device driver for it. I don't think that's a risk in this case. -- 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
