> I'm suggesting identifying a range of addresses on a bus with a "port" > (or whatever it should be called). Multiple ports could claim > non-overlapping ranges on the same bus.
Which is fine until you meant a mux or a device that can be moved about by writing to it, or has a wide range of addresses determined by strapping. > In this particular case (Intel LGA2011 systems), there's only one sane > way to wire up the busses, since the memory controller *is* the smbus > master. According to the JEDEC spec, each DIMM slot is has three pins Ok that helps a lot for the specific case, and you have at least in theory got a flag between the OS and BIOS to avoid things like SMM throwing parties on the smbus while you are using it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
