Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:29:28 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] apci: dump slit |
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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@firstfloor.org> 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
-- ak@linux.intel.com
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