Re: [PATCH 3/4] ACPI / APEI: Drop uninformative messages during boot

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Jul 21 2017 - 09:27:53 EST


On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 06:50:51PM +0100, Punit Agrawal wrote:
> "Firmware does not support APEI firmware first mode"
>
> Thoughts?

I guess the simplest would be to add a third state to that hest_disable
to denote "HEST table not found" and then exit ghes_init() early, based on
checking it.

Otherwise ghes_init() inits a bunch of things which you probably don't
want on a platform which doesn't support APEI.

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