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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: fix early DSDT dmi check warnings on ia64
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:42:18 -0400 (EDT)
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x86 calls dmi_scan_machine() to initialize DMI
from setup_arch().

ia64 calls dmi_scan_machine() from core_initcall()

Maybe they should both call it from the same place?

Also, ia64 should not parse entries which are known
at compile-time to be x86 specific

thanks,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center