On 12/04/13 at 09:43am, Toshi Kani wrote: > On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 10:46 +0800, Dave Young wrote: > > Hi, Toshi > > > > > Oh, I think I now understand what the issue was. The z420 firmware > > > updates the SMBIOS table address in the EFI system table to a virtual > > > address after calling EFI SetVirtualAddressMap. So, you are passing the > > > original physical address of the SMBIOS table from the 1st kernel to the > > > 2nd kernel to put it back to physical. Is that right? > > > > Right. > > Hi Dave, > > The z420 firmware is based on some UEFI core that may be used by other > vendors as well. Since this handling is totally harmless (just > redundant), I'd suggest not to have a platform check on this handling. I have same worry as well, so I agree with you. Thanks Dave
