Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:07:24 -0500 | From | Robin Holt <> | Subject | Re: memcpy_fromio in dmi_scan.c |
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On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 08:16:50PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: > > That being said, "my" SN2 machine was previously running kernel 3.0.34 > > which has the old dmi_scan code and it also said "DMI not present or > > invalid." Plus dmidecode fails on this machine with: > > > > /sys/firmware/efi/systab: SMBIOS entry point missing > > > > So it might as well be that DMI support on SN2 was already broken. > > Please let me know your findings on other SN2 machines. > > I don't have an sn2 to test. Added Robin Holt to Cc list
I will try and boot an sn2 machine first thing tomorrow morning. I don't recall dmidecode being broken, but that was quite a while ago. I thought the license validation code we used on sn2 used data from the dmidecode output.
Robin
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