hi there. i saw there was (again) question about ipmi(4) being disabled while acpi(4) is running.
fyi, there is a new thingy which allows IPMI run on top of ACPI - ACPI IPMI Operation Region. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff543825%28v=vs.85%29.aspx http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/product-briefs/ipmi-second-gen-interface-spec-v2-rev1-1.pdf per MS article, it is relatively new (only available on Win7 and up). not sure about motherboard firmwares support, but spec itself is definitely there, waiting for someone to implement it ;) so it's at least theoretically possible to have ipmi(4) either at apic(4), or at mainbus(4). cheers, alexey
