From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>, Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Remove EFI memmap quirk for UV
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 10:23:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151118092315.GB4138@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151118080047.GA22813@gmail.com>
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 09:00:47AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> We should at least check the BIOS version via a DMI quirk and panic in some nicely
> informative 'upgrade your BIOS!' way to ease the transition ...
Or since we're touching BIOS anyway, maybe stick a bit somewhere which
says "EFI is fixed/quirk not needed anymore" when set and software can
check that bit instead of checking BIOS versions...
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-18 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-16 17:59 Alex Thorlton
2015-11-16 17:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] Remove extra mapping code for UV MMRs Alex Thorlton
2015-11-16 18:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] Remove EFI memmap quirk for UV Thomas Gleixner
2015-11-17 9:52 ` Matt Fleming
2015-11-17 18:24 ` Alex Thorlton
2015-11-17 19:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-11-18 1:56 ` Alex Thorlton
2015-11-18 8:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-11-18 9:23 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2015-11-18 17:00 ` Alex Thorlton
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