From: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
To: David Michael <fedora.dm0@gmail.com>
Cc: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>,
Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] Add support for SMBIOS3 entry point structures
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 07:48:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55FE3A8C.8020800@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEvUa7mC9p+Osvkdke5htAUu_+zqYLuxka3ddWOcuUCMy=tawA@mail.gmail.com>
26.08.2015 20:01, David Michael пишет:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 5:26 AM, David Michael <fedora.dm0@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> grub-core/commands/efi/loadbios.c | 18 ++++++++++++++---
>>
>> I am not sure we want to touch it. From what I could gather it had
>> been used as workaround for lack of proper EFI support in Linux kernel
>> long ago and it is unlikely any system that required it would have
>> SMBIOS v3.
>>
>>> grub-core/commands/efi/lsefisystab.c | 1 +
>>> grub-core/efiemu/i386/pc/cfgtables.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>>
>> More or less the same. efiemu is used for (assuming it is still used
>> by anyone) for Apple systems only, so unless Apple actually supports
>> SMBIOS v3 it is probably better to leave it.
>
> I haven't tried any recent Apple systems, but in my quest to find v3
> hardware, I looked at a MacBook Air from a generation or two ago. It
> only supported v2.4.
>
> Do you want an updated patch, or is this usable with those files'
> changes deleted?
>
Update patch would be nice. Thank you!
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-20 4:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-16 2:26 [PATCH v4 1/2] Add support for SMBIOS3 entry point structures David Michael
2015-08-17 19:31 ` Leif Lindholm
2015-08-26 16:51 ` David Michael
2015-08-21 12:12 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-08-26 17:01 ` David Michael
2015-09-20 4:48 ` Andrei Borzenkov [this message]
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