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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:38:58 +0300
From: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][alpha] "pm_power_off" [drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_poweroff.ko] undefined!
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 04:53:12PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Although I suppose its possible that some alpha machines have SMI 
> hardware, I don't think I've ever seen ACPI or IPMI on any alpha.

Yes, this stuff doesn't exist. I think it would be correct to add
the following to drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig, like it's done for ACPI:

menu "IPMI"
+	depends on IA64 || X86

config IPMI_HANDLER
       tristate 'IPMI top-level message handler'
+	depends on IA64 || X86


Ivan.