From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754303AbcHSAyY (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2016 20:54:24 -0400 Received: from mail-oi0-f43.google.com ([209.85.218.43]:33358 "EHLO mail-oi0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754245AbcHSAyQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2016 20:54:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 21:41:30 +0100 From: Matt Fleming To: Dave Young Cc: Icenowy Zheng , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H . Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Josh Triplett , Josh Boyer , Andy Lutomirski Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/efi-bgrt: remove the check of the version field Message-ID: <20160818204130.GQ30909@codeblueprint.co.uk> References: <20160809052546.31462-1-icenowy@aosc.xyz> <20160815125643.GG30909@codeblueprint.co.uk> <20160817054413.GB5498@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160817054413.GB5498@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24+41 (02bc14ed1569) (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 17 Aug, at 01:44:13PM, Dave Young wrote: > > Could we add some quirk for these broken hardware instead of changing > the normal code? I'd prefer not to do that if possible. Due to the way that the BIOS ecosystem works, this kind of broken firmware spreads across the industry, appearing in newer versions of products from the same vendor and even products from different vendors. Continuously updating a quirks table as additional broken platforms are discovered simply does not scale.