Re: [PATCH v2 08/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: Introduce a WMI-ACPI interface

2017-09-27 Thread Darren Hart
On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 01:50:06PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: > The driver currently uses an SMI interface which grants direct access > to physical memory to the platform via a pointer. > > Now add a WMI-ACPI interface that is detected by WMI probe and preferred > over the SMI interface. > >

[PATCH v2 08/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: Introduce a WMI-ACPI interface

2017-09-26 Thread Mario Limonciello
The driver currently uses an SMI interface which grants direct access to physical memory to the platform via a pointer. Now add a WMI-ACPI interface that is detected by WMI probe and preferred over the SMI interface. Changing this to operate over WMI-ACPI will use an ACPI OperationRegion for a bu