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 :-( Bjorn ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Openipmi-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
