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From: ijc@debian.org (Ian Campbell)
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 18:16:12 +0100
Subject: [RFC/RFT PATCH 0/2] disable_hest quirk on HP m400 with bad UEFI
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On Tue, 2018-07-03 at 18:12 +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> I do not think anybody is preventing that, it is just that we do not
> see the reason for adding a DMI quirk to the mainline kernel to enable
> a platform with broken firmware that cripples one of the main feature
> it is supposed to implement, we can go on forever about this but that's
> the gist.

The quirk turns off a broken feature on the platform where it is
broken, not everywhere, there's no "crippling" of the feature.

Or are you suggesting that you have in mind a way to fix this which
makes HEST work even on m400 and renders the quirk unnecessary?

Ian.