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authorCorey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>2005-05-01 08:59:10 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-05-01 08:59:10 -0700
commit9206880198589670dfc33feb9d2e903c3492701f (patch)
tree3c9c15a6bca7c365fb64660cec4734b7cd3d1d3a /drivers/char/ipmi
parent5717ffbe16815db229a66fee824c2190cb306734 (diff)
[PATCH] IPMI: fix for handling bad IPMI DMI data
Ignore the bottom bit of the base address from the DMI data. It is supposed to be set to 1 if it is I/O space. Few systems do this, but this enables the ones that do set it to work properly. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/ipmi')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
index 44a7f13c788..3522723eb6b 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
@@ -1623,7 +1623,13 @@ static int decode_dmi(dmi_header_t *dm, int intf_num)
}
} else {
/* Old DMI spec. */
- ipmi_data->base_addr = base_addr;
+ /* Note that technically, the lower bit of the base
+ * address should be 1 if the address is I/O and 0 if
+ * the address is in memory. So many systems get that
+ * wrong (and all that I have seen are I/O) so we just
+ * ignore that bit and assume I/O. Systems that use
+ * memory should use the newer spec, anyway. */
+ ipmi_data->base_addr = base_addr & 0xfffe;
ipmi_data->addr_space = IPMI_IO_ADDR_SPACE;
ipmi_data->offset = 1;
}