Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 14 Feb 2014 10:22:12 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: AW: AW: [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for Soekris net6501 |
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On 02/14/2014 10:21 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> On 02/14/2014 10:13 AM, Conrad Kostecki wrote: >>>> >>>> Does it have DMI? >>> >>> Unfortunately not. >>> >>> # dmidecode 2.12 >>> # No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point found, sorry. >>> >> >> Sigh. Does anyone have contacts at Soekris who can complain about this >> stuff? > > Well, lots of embedded stuff comes with a crippled BIOS. And there is > often no way to get any BIOS fixes from the vendor through the > subvendors and supplier chain. > > I wish we could just use devicetree for such cases and fix the crud > ourself. >
We'd have to identify the platform, which is the main problem. Right now we support quirking for DMI or PCI, but I don't think we do for MPTABLE.
-hpa
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