From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752359Ab0IBKDP (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2010 06:03:15 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:43605 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752053Ab0IBKDN (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2010 06:03:13 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 12:03:08 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr , tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andi@firstfloor.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [arch-x86] Allow SRAT integrity check to be skipped Message-ID: <20100902100308.GA17167@basil.fritz.box> References: <20100901213318.19353.54619.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20100902065731.GB29972@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100902065731.GB29972@elte.hu> 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 > This isnt a particularly useful solution to users of said systems - they > have to figure out that this option exists, and then they have to enter > this option on the boot line. This usually only happens in early preproduction systems. So far the BIOS always got fixed before they shipped to users. But it's still useful to have this option so that the early users have a workaround. It's difficult to maintain DMI strings for early systems, they are too bleeding edge and the entries would be stale as soon as the BIOS is fixed. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.