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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix DMI for EFI
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On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 01:54 +0800, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Brian Maly <bmaly@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >> Hm, could we ever find ourselves in the positition of having to access
> >> the DMI strings table in the EFI init code, to implement a quirk? I
> >> think that's quite plausible.
> >
> >> OTOH, with some DMI quirks in EFI tables it's a bit of a chicken and
> >> egg problem. Can DMI strings ever be outside of EFI tables on EFI
> >> systems?
> >
> >> Ingo
> >
> > Right now it is EFI that loads the dmi tables (and all other
> > tables such as ACPI), so it is a chicken and the egg. I think
> > that if dmi is ever needed by EFI, the dmi scan will have to
> > be moved inside efi_init. We could move the dmi scan into
> > efi_init and do the dmi scan the moment we have the dmi table.
> > Thats really the soonest point we could scan on EFI systems.
> > Im OK with moving dmi to efi_init if you prefer.
>
> Your patch looks fine, but i'd like to hear the opinion of Ying
> Huang as well.

This patch is OK for me.

Thanks,
Huang Ying

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