From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965659AbXCBVWe (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 16:22:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965657AbXCBVWe (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 16:22:34 -0500 Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:43286 "EHLO out5.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965659AbXCBVWd (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 16:22:33 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: Numeg7JjtU2jlEoLjdQuikRqfTUT8e95YZQU3eB3zz2F 1172870552 Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 18:22:28 -0300 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh To: Jean Delvare Cc: Pavel Machek , Matthew Garrett , Chuck Ebbert , Rudolf Marek , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel , lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Could the k8temp driver be interfering with ACPI? Message-ID: <20070302212228.GC11786@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <45D5EA88.7090300@redhat.com> <45D6DDCE.5050803@assembler.cz> <45D7461A.2040808@redhat.com> <20070218183805.5a4fd813.khali@linux-fr.org> <20070228213803.GA4877@ucw.cz> <20070301152655.f232db64.khali@linux-fr.org> <20070302114023.GD2163@elf.ucw.cz> <20070302114747.GB1212@srcf.ucam.org> <20070302135810.GF2156@elf.ucw.cz> <20070302220052.f93f3976.khali@linux-fr.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070302220052.f93f3976.khali@linux-fr.org> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1024D/1CDB0FE3 5422 5C61 F6B7 06FB 7E04 3738 EE25 DE3F 1CDB 0FE3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 02 Mar 2007, Jean Delvare wrote: > I like the idea, it should work as long as we are guaranteed that all > the hwmon device accesses happen in the AML code? I'm not familiar with > ACPI, so you tell me. Some fubar machines do it in SMM mode, and the AML code just reads memory regions that were updated by the SMBIOS. Or, if one is lucky, the AML triggers the SMI (ThinkPads do this, for example -- but I am not sure that's the only way a ThinkPad will cause a SMI), so it could be made to run protected by the lock. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh