> > * Super-I/O chips at 0x2e/0x2f and 0x4e/0x4f. > > * Legacy PC hardware monitoring chips at 0x290-0x297. > > * IPMI interface at 0x0ca3 and 0x0cab (read-only). > > Please tell me which ones should be skipped on PowerPC.
Skip the whole thing. I consider that on a powerpc linux port, the platform is responsible for telling drivers where things are (via the device tree generally) > Christian, can you tell me which of these probes caused trouble for you? > > > > And how is userland code poking at random ports different from kernel > > > code poking at random ports? We could move sensors-detect inside the > > > kernel (and I have some plan to do that) but I fail to see how this > > > would solve this particular problem. > > > > It wouldn't, but at least I could NAK it or make it CONFIG_X86 :-) > > The same could be done for user-space (or at the /dev/port level.) Well, there are -other- legit usages of /dev/port... Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
