From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932307Ab0JUOXY (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:23:24 -0400 Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.141]:58712 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756515Ab0JUOXW (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:23:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:23:19 -0700 From: Vernon Mauery To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Randy Dunlap , Linux Documentation , Platform driver x86 Subject: Re: [Patch] IBM Real-Time "SMI Free" mode driver -v7 Message-ID: <20101021142319.GA8754@lucy> References: <20101005224718.GC4046@lucy> <20101021135429.GC22133@srcf.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101021135429.GC22133@srcf.ucam.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 21-Oct-2010 02:54 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: >Applied, thanks. It'd be nice if we didn't have to rely on DMI, >especially since enterprise customers often end up running later kernels I am not sure what you mean here by problems with DMI running later kernels. >- is there any other way to determine that this is safe to load? Could I can't think of anything off the top of my head that would allow us to ensure that this is only loaded on IBM systems. DMI is pretty good about that. --Vernon >we just limit it to IBM systems in a server/blade chassis and then check >for the _RTL_ area? > >-- >Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org >