From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757867AbYILV1J (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:27:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755301AbYILV04 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:26:56 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:38598 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753601AbYILV0z (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:26:55 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:30:53 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Andi Kleen , Yinghai Lu , Andrew Morton , mingo@elte.hu, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] apci: dump slit Message-ID: <20080912213053.GR7714@one.firstfloor.org> References: <1221243468-8016-1-git-send-email-yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> <20080912122031.eca8723e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <86802c440809121229i14727af4nd1416044b06ebb94@mail.gmail.com> <878wtxrrwh.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 1.) what guarantees that we reach user space ? Broken SLITs don't prevent booting. > 2) If it is _valuable_ information which we can gather via kernel > output, then it is much more conveniant than asking the user to type > whatevercryptictoolcommandline and provide the output. Yes excellent point. Should we dump the complete ACPI tables? Do you prefer hexdump or do we need a ASL disassembler? Also complete SMBIOS? Also the legacy mptables of course too. And all the EFI methods. Ideally a disassembly of the complete BIOS. Did I miss anything? -Andi