From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753268AbcHXHa3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Aug 2016 03:30:29 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:56104 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752925AbcHXHa1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Aug 2016 03:30:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 15:30:13 +0800 From: Dave Young To: Icenowy Zheng Cc: Matt Fleming , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H . Peter Anvin" , "x86@kernel.org" , "linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Josh Triplett , Josh Boyer , Andy Lutomirski Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/efi-bgrt: remove the check of the version field Message-ID: <20160824073013.GC13137@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com> References: <20160809052546.31462-1-icenowy@aosc.xyz> <20160815125643.GG30909@codeblueprint.co.uk> <20160817054413.GB5498@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com> <20160818204130.GQ30909@codeblueprint.co.uk> <20160822072841.GB32673@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com> <388401471855799@web30j.yandex.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <388401471855799@web30j.yandex.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.2 (2016-07-01) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.39]); Wed, 24 Aug 2016 07:30:27 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/22/16 at 04:49pm, Icenowy Zheng wrote: > > > 22.08.2016, 15:28, "Dave Young" : > > On 08/18/16 at 09:41pm, Matt Fleming wrote: > >>  On Wed, 17 Aug, at 01:44:13PM, Dave Young wrote: > >>  > > >>  > Could we add some quirk for these broken hardware instead of changing > >>  > the normal code? > >> > >>  I'd prefer not to do that if possible. Due to the way that the BIOS > >>  ecosystem works, this kind of broken firmware spreads across the > >>  industry, appearing in newer versions of products from the same vendor > >>  and even products from different vendors. > >> > >>  Continuously updating a quirks table as additional broken platforms > >>  are discovered simply does not scale. > > > > Ok, I assumed that they are limited like one point in the web url > > http://wiki.osdev.org/Broken_UEFI_implementations > > At least I think all Thinkpads suffer from this. Icenowy, sorry for late reply, I missed it. I'm not sure other version, but my T440s does work well. > > > > > But I arm probably wrong like you said. Please ignore the comment then. > > Thanks Dave