From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261869AbVGaSmC (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:42:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261873AbVGaSmC (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:42:02 -0400 Received: from fnoeppeil48.netpark.at ([217.175.205.176]:55049 "EHLO roarinelk.homelinux.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261869AbVGaSmB (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:42:01 -0400 Message-ID: <42ED1B6F.9090005@roarinelk.homelinux.net> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:41:51 +0200 From: Manuel Lauss User-Agent: Thunderbird/1.0 Mnenhy/0.7 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Stelian Pop Subject: Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3 References: <20050728025840.0596b9cb.akpm@osdl.org> <42EC9410.8080107@roarinelk.homelinux.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > - The SonyPI driver just allocates IO regions in random areas. It's got a > list of places to try allocating in, and the 1080 area just happens to > be the first on the list, and since it's not used by anything else, it > succeeds (never mind that it's on totally the wrong bus). On three different intel-vaios, I've seen the sonypi device always located at ioport 0x1080. Even the windows driver on these models always allocates the 0x1080-0x109f io-range for it. -- Manuel Lauss