Re: [PATCH -v6 2/2] IPMI: use ACPI detection mechanism firstly to detect IPMI system interface

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On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 05:27:22PM +0800, yakui.zhao@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Use the ACPI detection mechanism firstly to detect the IPMI system interface
> so that we can know which IPMI system interface is detected in ACPI namespace and
> then install the IPMI opregion to enable ACPI to access the BMC controller.
> But the hardcode detection mechanism is still put in the first order.

This is less than ideal. I've seen several machines where the PCI IPMI 
device is the only one to provide interrupts, so using the ACPI one and 
refusing to register the PCI one isn't really an option.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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