Re: [PATCH] x86/mrst: add SFI platform device parsing code

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Sep 23 2010 - 12:44:57 EST


> usually what causes things to break down. However, if you're totally
> confident that all the BIOS authors at the OEMs are going to work
> well together here then I guess it's only Moorestown that's affected.

I'm not 100% confident which is why we lobbied hard to get DMI into the
firmware, but I think there is a good chance the SFI stuff will be
fine. My bigger worry to be honest is going to be people adding stuff
which isn't even in firmware enumerations.

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