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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	mingo@elte.hu, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] apci: dump slit
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:29:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080912222928.GB11730@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86802c440809121454v5302d79ds8c6e1e6ca948059a@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 02:54:12PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> >
> > Yes excellent point.  Should we dump the complete ACPI tables?
> > Do you prefer hexdump
> 
> good point. there is one time BIOS put blank slit there. (only have
> acpi table header)
> only after dump that earlier in kernel boot log, they shut up and go
> back to fix their problem.

You should have asked them to run firmwaretestkit (and if fwtestkit 
doesn't test for a correct SLIT fix it there). That is what
it is for. But adding it 
to all Linux bootlogs ever just for this special case is the wrong way.


-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-12 22:25 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
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 [this message]
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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