On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 07:23:19AM -0700, Vernon Mauery wrote: > On 21-Oct-2010 02:54 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> Applied, thanks. It'd be nice if we didn't have to rely on DMI, >> especially since enterprise customers often end up running later kernels > > I am not sure what you mean here by problems with DMI running later > kernels. Oops, sorry! I mean running on older kernels. >> - is there any other way to determine that this is safe to load? Could > > I can't think of anything off the top of my head that would allow us to > ensure that this is only loaded on IBM systems. DMI is pretty good > about that. I'd suggest using DMI to verify that it's an IBM, and perhaps also using DMI to check that it's a server or blade rather than a laptop or desktop. After that you could just check the ebda rather than having to have an entry for every specific machine. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
