Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:25:23 +0100 | | From | Matthew Garrett <> | | Subject | Re: [Patch] IBM Real-Time "SMI Free" mode driver -v7 |
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On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 07:23:19AM -0700, Vernon Mauery wrote: > 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.
Oops, sorry! I mean running on older 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.
I'd suggest using DMI to verify that it's an IBM, and perhaps also using DMI to check that it's a server or blade rather than a laptop or desktop. After that you could just check the ebda rather than having to have an entry for every specific machine.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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