From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
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 23:30:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080912213053.GR7714@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0809122313440.13819@apollo.tec.linutronix.de>
> 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?
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-12 21:27 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 [this message]
2008-09-12 21:41 ` Matt Keenan
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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