From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Intel MID / CE4100 - platform support - pnpbios support ?
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 11:43:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5702B5C2.7070101@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160404182438.GB1990@wotan.suse.de>
On 04/04/16 11:24, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 09:01:06AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 03/31/16 13:03, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>> Andy S, Peter, Thomas, Jiang (or who might know),
>>>
>>> Do Intel MID platforms exist with PNP BIOS support? What abot CE4100?
>>> As it stands I don't see anything that would prevent this but I would
>>> suspect a possibility might be that it doesn't. I'm sanitizing some
>>> early boot code right now and pnpbios is one, and as I work on this,
>>> this has come up as a question for me.
>>>
>>
>> The "MID" platforms from a Linux platform perspective are the ones with
>> SFI and DT bootloaders, respectively; by definition they don't have
>> standard BIOS.
>
> I see thanks, I ask as I'm currently removing a pnpbios replacing a
> paravirt_enabled() check to a more general disable pnpbios x86 platform quirk
> option, so far lguest and xen would use it but it would seem to me it was
> worthy to ask if if MID and CE4100 subarchs also could have this set as well
> then.
>
> It sounds like then at least for Intel MID I can disable pnpbios as well
> as a quirk as well. I can introduce that change separately in my series.
>
> What about CE4100 ?
>
The same, I am pretty sure.
-hpa
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-31 20:03 Intel MID / CE4100 - platform support - pnpbios support ? Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-04 16:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-04-04 18:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-04 18:43 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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