Re: linux-next: Tree for June 13: IO APIC breakage on HP nx6325

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> >  Is the DMI ID *guaranteed* to be changed with an update to the DSDT?  
> 
> The BIOS version is, yes.

 Good to know, thanks.

> > Anyway, you cannot imply from a given DMI ID a broken DSDT is present, so
> > you will have to repeat the experience of adding another DMI ID whenever a
> > user hits this broken DSDT with another piece of hardware.  As long as you
> > are able to pull this piece of information from that user, that is...
> 
> These are the only two pieces of hardware ever reported to have this 
> problem. Nobody appears to have demonstrated it on any other HP systems, 
> and any non-HP systems would have a different identifier string. With 
> the SB400 being superceded, I don't expect us to see any more machines 
> with the same ID.

 Fair enough.  As I wrote, I'll send an update shortly.

  Maciej
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