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> usually what causes things to break down.  However, if you're totally
> confident that all the BIOS authors at the OEMs are going to work
> well together here then I guess it's only Moorestown that's affected.

I'm not 100% confident which is why we lobbied hard to get DMI into the
firmware, but I think there is a good chance the SFI stuff will be
fine. My bigger worry to be honest is going to be people adding stuff
which isn't even in firmware enumerations.