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From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
To: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
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Subject: RE: memcpy_fromio in dmi_scan.c
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> That being said, "my" SN2 machine was previously running kernel 3.0.34
> which has the old dmi_scan code and it also said "DMI not present or
> invalid." Plus dmidecode fails on this machine with:
>
> /sys/firmware/efi/systab: SMBIOS entry point missing
>
> So it might as well be that DMI support on SN2 was already broken.
> Please let me know your findings on other SN2 machines.

I don't have an sn2 to test. Added Robin Holt to Cc list

-Tony
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