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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/34] System Firmware Interface

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

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