From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750910AbWADWyY (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:54:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750885AbWADWyY (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:54:24 -0500 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:53187 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750852AbWADWyX (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:54:23 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.15 1/2] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c From: Alan Cox To: Matt Domsch Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060104221627.GA26064@lists.us.dell.com> References: <20060104221627.GA26064@lists.us.dell.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 22:55:55 +0000 Message-Id: <1136415355.7443.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mer, 2006-01-04 at 16:16 -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > Andi Kleen has a patch in his x86_64 tree which enables the use of > i386 dmi_scan.c on x86_64. dmi_scan.c functions are being used by the > drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c driver for autodetecting the ports or > memory spaces where the IPMI controllers may be found. > > This patch adds equivalent changes for ia64 as to what is in the > x86_64 tree. I was under the impression that the correct way to find the DMI tables on IA64 was by the EFI[ng ;)] firmware interface