Re: AW: AW: [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for Soekris net6501

H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-14T18:22:30Z

On 02/14/2014 10:21 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>> On 02/14/2014 10:13 AM, Conrad Kostecki wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Does it have DMI?
>>>
>>> Unfortunately not.
>>>
>>> # dmidecode 2.12
>>> # No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point found, sorry.
>>>
>>
>> Sigh. Does anyone have contacts at Soekris who can complain about this
>> stuff?
>
> Well, lots of embedded stuff comes with a crippled BIOS. And there is
> often no way to get any BIOS fixes from the vendor through the
> subvendors and supplier chain.
>
> I wish we could just use devicetree for such cases and fix the crud
> ourself.
>

We'd have to identify the platform, which is the main problem. Right
now we support quirking for DMI or PCI, but I don't think we do for MPTABLE.

-hpa