Re: memcpy_fromio in dmi_scan.c

[Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 09:07:24PM -0500, Robin Holt wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 08:16:50PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > > That being said, "my" SN2 machine was previously running kernel 3.0.34
> > > which has the old dmi_scan code and it also said "DMI not present or
> > > invalid." Plus dmidecode fails on this machine with:
> > >
> > > /sys/firmware/efi/systab: SMBIOS entry point missing
> > >
> > > So it might as well be that DMI support on SN2 was already broken.
> > > Please let me know your findings on other SN2 machines.
> > 
> > I don't have an sn2 to test. Added Robin Holt to Cc list
> 
> I will try and boot an sn2 machine first thing tomorrow morning.
> I don't recall dmidecode being broken, but that was quite a while ago.
> I thought the license validation code we used on sn2 used data from the
> dmidecode output.

 # uname -r
3.0.13-0.27-default
 # dmidecode
# dmidecode 2.9
/sys/firmware/efi/systab: SMBIOS entry point missing


It looks like it is broken there as well.  This is running a SLES11SP2
kernel with no local changes.

dmesg show:
DMI not present or invalid.

Thanks,
Robin