Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:37:40 -0600 | From | Matt Domsch <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.15 1/2] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c |
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On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 09:41:15AM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > The DMI scan looks like it's done in try_init_smbios(). But > try_init_acpi() is done first. Since every ia64 machine has > ACPI, I would think try_init_acpi() should be sufficient. > > Or do you have a machine that doesn't supply the SPMI > table used by try_init_acpi()?
This system (Dell PowerEdge 7250, very very similar to an Intel 4-way Itanium2 server) doesn't have an SPMI table, but it does have the IPMI information in the SMBIOS table.
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