Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:22:22 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] apci: dump slit |
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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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