From: Vernon Mauery <vernux@us.ibm.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Linux Documentation <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
Platform driver x86 <platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] IBM Real-Time "SMI Free" mode driver -v7
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:23:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101021142319.GA8754@lucy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101021135429.GC22133@srcf.ucam.org>
On 21-Oct-2010 02:54 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>Applied, thanks. It'd be nice if we didn't have to rely on DMI,
>especially since enterprise customers often end up running later kernels
I am not sure what you mean here by problems with DMI running later
kernels.
>- is there any other way to determine that this is safe to load? Could
I can't think of anything off the top of my head that would allow us to
ensure that this is only loaded on IBM systems. DMI is pretty good
about that.
--Vernon
>we just limit it to IBM systems in a server/blade chassis and then check
>for the _RTL_ area?
>
>--
>Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-21 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-05 22:47 [Patch] IBM Real-Time "SMI Free" mode driver -v7 Vernon Mauery
2010-10-21 13:54 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-10-21 14:23 ` Vernon Mauery [this message]
2010-10-21 14:25 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-10-21 14:38 ` Vernon Mauery
2010-10-21 14:42 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-10-21 15:09 ` Vernon Mauery
2010-10-22 21:13 ` [Patch 1/2] ibm_rtl: DMI match should include all IBM machines Vernon Mauery
2010-10-22 21:17 ` [Patch 2/2] ibm_rtl: check for efi_enabled Vernon Mauery
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