On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 03:01:01PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 November 2007 02:30:49 pm Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 01:36:45PM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> > > * Greg KH <[email protected]>:
> > > > IBM sells a program that does this for server rooms. It's
> > > > probably part of some Tivoli package somewhere, sorry I don't
> > > > remember the name. I did see it working many years ago and it
> > > > required no kernel changes at all to work properly.
>
> Do you know how this Tivoli package works or where it gets the
> information?
I was told it was just reading the ACPI tables from userspace. As I saw
it running on a machine without a modified kernel, I had no reason to
doubt this, but it might be doing something else for all I know.
What I do know is that it somehow does work without any kernel changes
needed, and is in use today by very large data centers without any
problems.
> > > Like I said in an earlier email, HP ia64 systems will require a
> > > kernel change to get this information. Whether it comes via a
> > > generic ACPI access layer like dev_acpi, or something like this
> > > patch series, the kernel will still get touched.
> >
> > And like I said, I'm pretty sure you don't need to touch the kernel
> > today as there are people doing this just fine from userspace without
> > any kernel changes needed :)
>
> I think you are assuming userspace can just dump the raw ACPI tables
> and extract this information from them. But I don't think that's
> possible because _SUN is a method that can contain arbitrary AML.
> That AML has to be *executed*, and you can't do that safely in
> userspace.
Yes, I was assuming that based on the above running code, if this is
somehow impossible to do from userspace, I don't know what the code is
doing.
thanks,
greg k-h
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