On Sat, 25 Nov 2017 14:43:08 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > On 11/24/2017 02:49 PM, Jean Delvare wrote: > > Isn't it a BIOS bug? > > No, as mentioned in: > > >> BugLink: https://communities.intel.com/thread/114759 > > The BIOS deliberately does not contain IRQ routing issues because some > variants of the Windows driver for this falling over if their is > any IRQ routing set, so this is a "feature" not a bug :| What I do not understand is how Apollo Lake systems are different from any other Intel system, which already had a compatible SMBus controller and apparently having an IRQ configured was never an issue? > > (...) > > However if this is considered a BIOS bug then a pr_err(FW_BUG...) would > > be good to add IMHO. > > See above, that would just replace one error message with another on all > Apollo Lake systems. Turning a cryptic error message into a meaningful error message isn't necessarily a bad thing. -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support
