Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:03:29 +0100 (BST) | From | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <> | Subject | Re: linux-next: Tree for June 13: IO APIC breakage on HP nx6325 |
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On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> The DSDT can't be updated without the BIOS being updated, and the DMI > information gives us a BIOS version string that can be matched against > if a fixed version is ever released. I'd be in favour of doing it with > DMI on the grounds that it's how we already handle machine-specific > quirks rather than adding new code to do it.
Is the DMI ID *guaranteed* to be changed with an update to the DSDT? Anyway, you cannot imply from a given DMI ID a broken DSDT is present, so you will have to repeat the experience of adding another DMI ID whenever a user hits this broken DSDT with another piece of hardware. As long as you are able to pull this piece of information from that user, that is...
Maciej
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