Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:11:31 -0600 | From | Matt Domsch <> | Subject | Re: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH 0/5] ia64 ioremap, DMI, EFI system table |
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On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:10:57PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > OK, here's a set of patches to (hopefully) clean up this area > a bit: > > 1 Simplify efi_mem_attribute_range() so I can use it both for > /dev/mem validation and ioremap() attribute checking. > > 2 Make ia64 ioremap() check memory attributes, so it works for > plain memory that only supports write-back access, as well as > for MMIO space that only supports uncacheable access. > > 3 DMI ioremaps too much space, which makes it fail on machines > where the SMBIOS table is near the end of a memory region. > > 4 Keep EFI table addresses as physical, not virtual. The SMBIOS > address was physical on x86 but virtual on ia64, which broke > dmi_scan_machine(). > > 5 Use smarter ioremap() implementation to remove some cruft in > acpi_os_{read,write,map}_memory(). This one's just an optional > cleanup; I don't think it fixes any bugs.
This set of patches works for me on my IA64 Tiger4 (Dell PowerEdge 7250) in kernel 2.6.16-rc1-mm4. modprobe ipmi_si successfully automatically finds the IPMI controller now.
Thanks Bjorn for doing a more complete cleanup in support of this!
Thanks, Matt
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