On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 08:57:09AM +0800, Huang Ying wrote: > On 06/16/2011 09:57 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Yeah, this is going to be a problem. We have the HEST available at this > > point so we ought to be able to parse it, though. I'll take a look > > tomorrow. > > We can check the HEST table before _OSC evaluating. But it is much > harder to check software part, because we have implemented GHES support > (Generic Hardware Error Source, the handler of firmware first mode > hardware error notification) as device driver and module. If the kernel has been configured with support for the feature then I think we ought to be able to assume that the kernel will support it at runtime. > So I think we can do that in 2 steps. At first, we just enable WHEA > UUID, because that is easier to do. Then we find a way to implement > "APEI bit" in generic _OSC call. Do you think that is a good idea? I'm fine with that, providing that GHES isn't disabled purely because the WHEA UUID call wasn't successful. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
