Re: [PATCH v2 11/12] driver: Google EFI SMI

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Mar 14 2011 - 19:08:32 EST



> > I don't know if there is a good way to have this guy autoloaded, but
> > that's probably fine. We will likely compile it in as a built-in or
> > adjust our userland to have the module loaded. We use it on all
> > machines we've been building for the last 4-5 years, and a table of
> > device IDs would just contain a list of a bunch of parts that aren't
> > really google-specific.
>
> What's wrong with using DMI strings? Are there going to be that many
> different ones of them here?

If you've got them in the ACPI tables that's as good as DMI if not better
IMHO
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