Re: [PATCH 16/17] [NOT-FOR-MERGE] media: atomsip: pci: add DMI match for Microsoft Surface 3 with broken DMI (OEMB)

[Tsuchiya Yuto <kitakar@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2021-10-18 at 09:56 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 10/17/21 18:19, Tsuchiya Yuto wrote:
> > This commit is added for Surface 3 with broken DMI table. HACK-ish.
> > Not intended for upstreaming. Thus, NOT-FOR-MERGE. But, if someone
> > knows a nicer way to address this, comments are welcome...
> > 
> > > 8-----------------------------------------------------------------8<
> > 
> > On some Microsoft Surface 3, the DMI table gets corrupted for unknown
> > reasons and breaks existing DMI matching used for device-specific quirks.
> > 
> > This commit adds the (broken) DMI data into dmi_system_id tables used
> > for quirks so that the driver can enable quirks even on the affected
> > systems.
> > 
> > On affected systems, the DMI data will look like this:
> > 
> >         $ grep . /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/{bios_vendor,board_name,board_vendor,\
> >         chassis_vendor,product_name,sys_vendor}
> >         /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/bios_vendor:American Megatrends Inc.
> >         /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/board_name:OEMB
> >         /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/board_vendor:OEMB
> >         /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/chassis_vendor:OEMB
> >         /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_name:OEMB
> >         /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/sys_vendor:OEMB
> 
> I wonder what the bios_date field contains ? Typically when the DMI strings
> are no good (e.g. often they contain "Default String" or "To be filled by OEM")
> we add a check on the bios-date, which together with the broken strings is
> considered unique enough to still allow a match with broken strings in the
> kernel.

Thank you so much for the comment :-)

Here is the full output of "/sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/*" (not showing
files that need root permission to read):

        $ grep . /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/*
        /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/bios_date:03/09/2015
        /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/bios_release:5.6
        /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/bios_vendor:American Megatrends Inc.
        /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/bios_version:1.51116.238
        /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/board_name:OEMB
        grep: /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/board_serial: Permission denied
        /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/board_vendor:OEMB
        /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/board_version:00
        grep: /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/chassis_serial: Permission denied
        /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/chassis_type:9
        /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/chassis_vendor:OEMB
        /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/modalias:dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1.51116.238:bd03/09/2015:br5.6:svnOEMB:pnOEMB:pvrB16D0SM1C4G1X1:rvnOEMB:rnOEMB:rvr00:cvnOEMB:ct9:cvr:sku:
        grep: /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/power: Is a directory
        /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_name:OEMB
        grep: /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_serial: Permission denied
        grep: /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_uuid: Permission denied
        /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_version:B16D0SM1C4G1X1
        grep: /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/subsystem: Is a directory
        /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/sys_vendor:OEMB
        /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/uevent:MODALIAS=dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1.51116.238:bd03/09/2015:br5.6:svnOEMB:pnOEMB:pvrB16D0SM1C4G1X1:rvnOEMB:rnOEMB:rvr00:cvnOEMB:ct9:cvr:sku:

The "bios_date" ("03/09/2015") looks not broken.

I also noticed when writing this mail, regarding the ones that need root
permission to read, "board_serial" and "chassis_serial" are now empty.
"product_serial" now shows "OEM":

        $ sudo cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_serial
        OEM

"product_uuid" looks not broken.

> Also have you tried doing something like "load bios/setup defaults" in
> the BIOS setup ? Maybe that helps ?

Unfortunately, there is no option like this...

Regards,
Tsuchiya Yuto