Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752605AbaBNSWa (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:22:30 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:56890 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751822AbaBNSW3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:22:29 -0500 Message-ID: <52FE5ED4.4040508@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 10:22:12 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Gleixner CC: Conrad Kostecki , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "x86@kernel.org" , "mingo@redhat.com" Subject: Re: AW: AW: [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for Soekris net6501 References: <4729ad4b8d3342c1b0e29fefe4b04d6a@DB4PR04MB265.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> <52FE5683.6030708@zytor.com> <52FE5BB6.9070405@zytor.com> <1051d374173243b2828efcd21f60ac36@DB4PR04MB265.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> <52FE5D91.6060005@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/14/2014 10:21 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> On 02/14/2014 10:13 AM, Conrad Kostecki wrote: >>>> >>>> Does it have DMI? >>> >>> Unfortunately not. >>> >>> # dmidecode 2.12 >>> # No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point found, sorry. >>> >> >> Sigh. Does anyone have contacts at Soekris who can complain about this >> stuff? > > Well, lots of embedded stuff comes with a crippled BIOS. And there is > often no way to get any BIOS fixes from the vendor through the > subvendors and supplier chain. > > I wish we could just use devicetree for such cases and fix the crud > ourself. > We'd have to identify the platform, which is the main problem. Right now we support quirking for DMI or PCI, but I don't think we do for MPTABLE. -hpa -- 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/