Messages in this thread | | | From | Bjorn Helgaas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.15 1/2] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c | Date | Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:54:18 -0700 |
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On Thursday 05 January 2006 10:37, Matt Domsch wrote: > 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.
But the IPMI device *should* be described in the ACPI namespace, so using acpi_bus_register_driver() should be sufficient.
I think that would be a better approach than using the SMBIOS table. But it is certainly a lot more work :-(
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