From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: geoff@infradead.org (Geoff Levand) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 09:15:28 -0700 Subject: [RFC/RFT PATCH 0/2] disable_hest quirk on HP m400 with bad UEFI firmwware In-Reply-To: References: <20180628100656.10692-1-james.morse@arm.com> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.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