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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 06:58:53 -0900
From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: binary garbage in dmesg/boot messages (2.2.18pre23)
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On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 03:31:51PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Board Name: Agate.
> > Board Version: AA662195-305.
> 
> So far so good
> 
> > BIOS Vendor: f.=A3^]<94>fA=E8^D.=A3ESC<94>^N^_
> 
> This looks like the table end markers are missing or the length was wrong.
> If you change
> 
> static int __init dmi_table(u32 base, int len, int num, void (*decode)(struct d
> {	 
> 		char *buf;
> 	struct dmi_header *dm;   
> 	u8 *data;
> 	int i=0;
> 
> in arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c to use
> 
> 	int i=1;
> 
> does it then behave nicely ?
> 

yes sure does, thanks!

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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