On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 19:44 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Ideally the DMI subsystem should be provided wrappers for platforms > > without DMI, rendering patches like this unnecessary. > > Interesting question - is the PPC OpenFirmware machine information > mappable onto the DMI space ? or the various static bits of name > information in the various ARM and the like machine descriptions. > > If not which bits are similar enough we could replace dmi at the high > level with an abstract interface for system/vendor/... that was ? The one thing we could try to map would be the device-tree "compatible" property which would contain vendor,system tuples from more specific to more generic with which the machine is compatible with. Of course I would argue the other way around and create a device-tree from the DMI data :-) Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
