From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: No PCI-X / PCI-E cards ...
References: <1260979057.23135.70.camel@skunk> <1261089592.8827.5.camel@bip>
	<adahbrp43x7.fsf@roland-alpha.cisco.com>
	<1261477857.22127.23.camel@skunk> <1261573481.4822.14.camel@skunk>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:01:49 -0800
In-Reply-To: <1261573481.4822.14.camel@skunk> (Xavier Bestel's message of
	"Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:04:41 +0100")
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 > It looks like if the board has been flashed with the wrong bios (the
 > dmidecode info isn't consistent with what I see on the board).
 > Is there a way to workaround that in the kernel ?

Wrong BIOS is pretty fundamental -- the BIOS could have messed up many
undocumented (and possibly write-once) register settings etc.  The
kernel can work around slighly broken ACPI tables or things like that,
but if, say, undocumented write-only north bridge registers are wrong,
not much we can do about that.

Really you better just get the right BIOS on the board.

 - R.
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