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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Philipp Kohlbecher <xt28@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: alternative identifier for Phoenix BIOS
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:55:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <491F7D88.7080403@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <491EEDE8.5080508@gmx.de>

Philipp Kohlbecher wrote:
> My laptop (a Samsung X20) contains a Phoenix BIOS and would benefit from
> patch 1e22436eba84edfec9c25e5a25d09062c4f91ca9 (x86: reserve low 64K on
> AMI and Phoenix BIOS boxen).
> 
> However, according to /sys/class/dmi/id/bios_vendor, the BIOS identifies
> its vendor as "Phoenix Technologies LTD" (sans the comma).

Given that AMI and Phoenix combined is something like 80% of the BIOS
market, if not more, it might simply be easier to make it unconditional,
 or make it a whitelist instead.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-16  1:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-15 15:42 [PATCH] x86: alternative identifier for Phoenix BIOS Philipp Kohlbecher
2008-11-16  1:55 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-11-16  7:23   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-16 11:11     ` [PATCH v2] x86: more general " Philipp Kohlbecher
2008-11-18 15:12       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-16 11:14   ` [PATCH] x86: alternative " Alan Cox
2008-11-18 15:06     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-16 16:51   ` Pavel Machek

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