From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geoff Levand Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH 0/2] disable_hest quirk on HP m400 with bad UEFI firmwware Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 09:15:28 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20180628100656.10692-1-james.morse@arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org To: Ard Biesheuvel , James Morse Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi , Riku Voipio , Mark Salter , ACPI Devel Maling List , Hanjun Guo , Sudeep Holla , linux-arm-kernel List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Hi Ard, On 06/28/2018 03:25 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > Given how the upstream kernel is aimed at future development, I don't > think we should fix this in the upstream kernel at all. Distros are > free to do what they like, of course, and I'm sure RedHat already have > a fix for this in their downstream kernel. Debian expects the kernel to work correctly, and so won't add a fix. That means CONFIG_ACPI_APEI can't be enabled, and so users must either go without APEI or use a custom built kernel. See: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900581 -Geoff