From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755341Ab0IVAeV (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:34:21 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:24136 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753636Ab0IVAeV (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:34:21 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.56,403,1280732400"; d="scan'208";a="659766783" Message-ID: <4C994F0B.6030004@linux.intel.com> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:34:19 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: "Glove box" BIOS patch causes boot flicker References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org A "glove box" is a device used to handle toxic stuff. In this case the toxic stuff is the BIOS. There were some minor bugs (typos) in the conversion to the glove box coding style. The ones we have found have been fixed, so the first thing is to try the current mainline or the current tip tree. Otherwise I would look for issues where either the wrong register is changed, or something like a variable is changed instead of a field. -hpa