Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:23:19 -0700 | From | Vernon Mauery <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] IBM Real-Time "SMI Free" mode driver -v7 |
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On 21-Oct-2010 02:54 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: >Applied, thanks. It'd be nice if we didn't have to rely on DMI, >especially since enterprise customers often end up running later kernels
I am not sure what you mean here by problems with DMI running later kernels.
>- is there any other way to determine that this is safe to load? Could
I can't think of anything off the top of my head that would allow us to ensure that this is only loaded on IBM systems. DMI is pretty good about that.
--Vernon
>we just limit it to IBM systems in a server/blade chassis and then check >for the _RTL_ area? > >-- >Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org >
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