Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix DMI for EFI | From | Huang Ying <> | Date | Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:33:38 +0800 |
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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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