Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:25:31 +0200 | | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/34] System Firmware Interface |
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Playing the devils advocate here, but this is really unclear...
> There is some additional information I'd like to throw out here as > well. SMBIOS also provides information on the system state after the > BIOS/EFI is finished and before the kernel has been booted. This has > been *invaluable* to me when diagnosing some wonky hardware from OEMs.
Hmm this is for SMBIOS tables that changes at runtime? Why exactly is the kernel booting a good point to dump that?
Normally the kernel afaik doesn't change SMBIOS as far as I know.
There may be some hotplug events that change it, but they have no particular relation to kernel boot.
> I want to expand the SMBIOS layer to dump that information out when I
What information exactly?
And dumping = print to system log?
> tl;dr: There are some other useful bits of SMBIOS we could take > advantage of but the current "dmi" layer is difficult to work with.
Like what?
-Andi
-- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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