Re: [PATCH] apci: dump slit

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 02:54:12PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Yes excellent point.  Should we dump the complete ACPI tables?
> > Do you prefer hexdump
> 
> good point. there is one time BIOS put blank slit there. (only have
> acpi table header)
> only after dump that earlier in kernel boot log, they shut up and go
> back to fix their problem.

You should have asked them to run firmwaretestkit (and if fwtestkit 
doesn't test for a correct SLIT fix it there). That is what
it is for. But adding it 
to all Linux bootlogs ever just for this special case is the wrong way.


-Andi

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