Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:51:42 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: alternative identifier for Phoenix BIOS |
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On Sat 2008-11-15 17:55:20, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Philipp Kohlbecher wrote: > > My laptop (a Samsung X20) contains a Phoenix BIOS and would benefit from > > patch 1e22436eba84edfec9c25e5a25d09062c4f91ca9 (x86: reserve low 64K on > > AMI and Phoenix BIOS boxen). > > > > However, according to /sys/class/dmi/id/bios_vendor, the BIOS identifies > > its vendor as "Phoenix Technologies LTD" (sans the comma). > > Given that AMI and Phoenix combined is something like 80% of the BIOS > market, if not more, it might simply be easier to make it unconditional, > or make it a whitelist instead.
Whitelist is bad:
even if bios vendor is a good boy and tests their bios with linux, they will not notice that they corrupt low 64K (not whitelisted), and will not fix their bios.
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