On Wed, 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.
Can't this be done via ACPI/EFI? I'm really opposed to adding
anything to ia64 that blindly picks memory ranges and starts scanning
for magic legacy tables. If nothing else, this can be found via
efi.smbios. Thanks,
Alex
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