Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] x86/quirks: Add early quirk to reset Apple AirPort card

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jun 14 2016 - 03:36:43 EST



* Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Jun, at 02:37:26PM, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> >
> > Resetting the card solves the problem at the root and fixes both,
> > the spurious interrupts and the memory corruption.
>
> It also avoids the need to figure out exactly which Boot Services
> regions may have become corrupt.
>
> This would be necessary since you can't keep all Boot Services regions
> reserved because those regions can add up to be many gigabytes in
> size, even on relatively low-end laptops that don't have huge amounts
> of RAM to begin with.
>
> Freeing Boot Services regions is pretty important.

Ok!

Thanks,

Ingo