Messages in this thread | | | From | Bjorn Helgaas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] Detect hwmon and i2c bus drivers interfering with ACPI Operation Region resources | Date | Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:50:33 -0600 |
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On Saturday 27 October 2007 9:09:47 am Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:06:22AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > But we really *should* reserve things used by opregions, shouldn't > > we? After all, the whole point of resource reservation is to prevent > > conflicts. > > Only if you're happy to lose functionality like IDE, sadly.
That's a simplistic answer to a complex problem. I don't think we should just ignore the whole problem, cross our fingers, and hope that firmware stays out of our way.
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