On Friday 02 March 2007 07:03, Jean Delvare wrote: > ... The primary issue is the concurrent access > to resources, which cause lots of trouble which are hard to investigate. > If ACPI reserves the ports, then the SMBus or hardware monitoring > drivers (or any other conflicting driver) will cleanly fail to load, > which would be a move in the right direction. ... > > So, can ACPI actually reserve the ports it accesses? Sorry to join this discussion so late. ACPI tells us the resources used by devices. Today, we don't reserve ACPI resources until a driver claims a device. PCI does some sort of reservation up front, before the driver claims devices. Conceptually, I think ACPI should do the same thing, and I don't think it's that hard to do. But breaking things like lmsensors would make the transition painful. Bjorn
