Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932412Ab3DYCH1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:07:27 -0400 Received: from relay2.sgi.com ([192.48.179.30]:33640 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932227Ab3DYCH0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:07:26 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:07:24 -0500 From: Robin Holt To: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Jean Delvare , DuanZhenzhong , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel , "Yu, Fenghua" , "holt@sgi.com" Subject: Re: memcpy_fromio in dmi_scan.c Message-ID: <20130425020724.GR3658@sgi.com> References: <1366636689.4503.35.camel@chaos.site> <5175FF0F.9050206@oracle.com> <1366702122.4667.11.camel@chaos.site> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F1EA52ED3@ORSMSX104.amr.corp.intel.com> <1366831328.4618.476.camel@chaos.site> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F1EA53DAA@ORSMSX104.amr.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F1EA53DAA@ORSMSX104.amr.corp.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1002 Lines: 23 On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 08:16:50PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: > > 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 I will try and boot an sn2 machine first thing tomorrow morning. I don't recall dmidecode being broken, but that was quite a while ago. I thought the license validation code we used on sn2 used data from the dmidecode output. Robin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/