From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] [arch-x86] Allow SRAT integrity check to be skipped Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:03:40 -0700 Message-ID: <4C87CFFC.8050709@zytor.com> References: <20100901213318.19353.54619.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20100902065731.GB29972@elte.hu> <20100902100308.GA17167@basil.fritz.box> <20100903063934.GA25863@elte.hu> <1283888337.18468.9.camel@pjaxe> <4C869AA3.6000103@zytor.com> <87wrqwiv1l.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr , Ingo Molnar , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "mingo@redhat.com" , "x86@kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" To: Andi Kleen Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:46157 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752443Ab0IHSEN (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2010 14:04:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87wrqwiv1l.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 09/07/2010 11:55 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" writes: >> >> If this is a production BIOS it should have this information. > > The point was -- it wasn't a production BIOS and the production > BIOS will be fixed. > >>From the original description: This patch adds a boot parameter to allow a kernel to be booted with the option to skip the SRAT check. There are BIOSes in ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ production that have these failures, so this will allow people ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ in the field to work around these BIOS issues. Agreed that command-line option is a good thing to have in general and that it is not necessary to have DMI quirks for preproduction BIOSes. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.