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DateSun, 14 Sep 2008 13:22:22 +0200
FromPavel Machek <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] apci: dump slit
On Fri 2008-09-12 23:19:21, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> writes:
> > >
> > > to see how wrong could be set by BIOS.
> > 
> > Just dump it from user space then.  There are plenty of tools
> > to access ACPI tables.
> 
> 1.) what guarantees that we reach user space ?

We can dump in *any* kernel.

> 2) If it is _valuable_ information which we can gather via kernel
>    output, then it is much more conveniant than asking the user to type
>    whatevercryptictoolcommandline and provide the output.

Ooh, 'lets dump more junk at everyone, typing commands is hard' :-(.

							Pavel

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