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From: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: ask a question about ERST
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:30:51 +0800
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On 2012-10-18 20:06, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 04:31:59PM +0800, Zhenzhong Duan wrote:
>> Hi maintainer,
>> I found below patch reverted part of erst header size check.
>> This lead to mismatch with kernel upstream code and erst disabled on
>> some machine like X4170 M3/X3-2.
>> According to the ACPI spec 4.0 and 5.0, the Serialization Header Length
>> should be the length of Serialization Header.
>> After revert below patch, xen succeed with erst table init.
>> So could this patch be reverted now to match acpi spec and kernel upstream?
> There was a discussion about this on xen-devel. Search for Jan and ERST
> and I believe the idea was that an AMD machine needs to be checked
> to figure out what to do.
Well, I see. I'll wait for the final fix.
thanks all