Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [arch-x86] Allow SRAT integrity check to be skipped | From | Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <> | Date | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:51:29 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 11:03 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 09/07/2010 11:55 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes: > >> > >> If this is a production BIOS it should have this information. > > > > The point was -- it wasn't a production BIOS and the production > > BIOS will be fixed. > > > > From the original description: > > This patch adds a boot parameter to allow a kernel to be booted > with the option to skip the SRAT check. There are BIOSes in > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > production that have these failures, so this will allow people > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > in the field to work around these BIOS issues. > > > Agreed that command-line option is a good thing to have in general and > that it is not necessary to have DMI quirks for preproduction BIOSes.
Right. The new patchset (when I finish it) will have the DMI quirk for this specific production NHM-EX, plus the command-line option.
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