Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Mar 2007 14:37:20 +0100 | From | Jean Delvare <> | Subject | Re: [lm-sensors] Could the k8temp driver be interfering with ACPI? |
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On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:31:58 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > My point (which you didn't quote) was that there is no correlation > > between the SMBus being hidden and ACPI accessing the hardware > > monitoring chip, contrary to what Pavel was suggesting. > > It may not be correlated with ACPI, but BIOS authors clearly want to > keep you away from their SMBus controllers....
drivers/pci/quirks.c is full of things we do against the BIOS authors intent. You don't plan to remove them all, do you?
(And as a side note, this is really the board's owner SMBus controller. The hardware doesn't belong to the BIOS author.)
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