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From: Matt Keenan <tank.en.mate@gmail.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	mingo@elte.hu, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] apci: dump slit
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:41:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1221255716.11711.42.camel@bazbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080912213053.GR7714@one.firstfloor.org>

On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 23:30 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 1.) what guarantees that we reach user space ?
> 
> Broken SLITs don't prevent booting.
> 
> > 2) If it is _valuable_ information which we can gather via kernel
> >    output, then it is much more conveniant than asking the user to type
> >    whatevercryptictoolcommandline and provide the output.
> 
> Yes excellent point.  Should we dump the complete ACPI tables?
> Do you prefer hexdump or do we need a ASL disassembler?
> Also complete SMBIOS? Also the legacy mptables of course too.
> And all the EFI methods.  Ideally a disassembly of the complete BIOS.
> Did I miss anything?
> 

Harsh... but harsh.

Matt



  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-12 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-12 18:17 [PATCH] apci: dump slit Yinghai Lu
2008-09-12 19:20 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-12 19:29   ` Yinghai Lu
2008-09-12 20:13     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-12 21:17       ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-12 21:44         ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-09-12 21:11     ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-12 21:19       ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-09-12 21:30         ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-12 21:41           ` Matt Keenan [this message]
2008-09-12 21:49           ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-09-12 22:14             ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-12 21:54           ` Yinghai Lu
2008-09-12 22:29             ` Andi Kleen
2008-09-14 11:22         ` Pavel Machek
2008-09-14 12:26           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-14 15:59             ` Pavel Machek
2008-09-14 16:00               ` Pavel Machek
2008-09-14 16:04               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-14 18:13                 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-09-18 18:26                 ` Andi Kleen

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