Re: [PATCH] x86/efi-bgrt: remove the check of the version field

From	Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] x86/efi-bgrt: remove the check of the version field
Date	2016-08-24 09:40 +0200
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On 08/22/16 at 04:49pm, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
> 
> 
> 22.08.2016, 15:28, "Dave Young" <dyoung@redhat.com>:
> > On 08/18/16 at 09:41pm, Matt Fleming wrote:
> >>  On Wed, 17 Aug, at 01:44:13PM, Dave Young wrote:
> >>  >
> >>  > Could we add some quirk for these broken hardware instead of changing
> >>  > the normal code?
> >>
> >>  I'd prefer not to do that if possible. Due to the way that the BIOS
> >>  ecosystem works, this kind of broken firmware spreads across the
> >>  industry, appearing in newer versions of products from the same vendor
> >>  and even products from different vendors.
> >>
> >>  Continuously updating a quirks table as additional broken platforms
> >>  are discovered simply does not scale.
> >
> > Ok, I assumed that they are limited like one point in the web url
> > http://wiki.osdev.org/Broken_UEFI_implementations
> 
> At least I think all Thinkpads suffer from this.

Icenowy, sorry for late reply, I missed it. I'm not sure other version, but my
T440s does work well.

> 
> >
> > But I arm probably wrong like you said. Please ignore the comment then.
> >

Thanks
Dave

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Re: [PATCH] x86/efi-bgrt: remove the check of the version field Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2016-08-15 15:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] x86/efi-bgrt: remove the check of the version field Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2016-08-15 18:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] x86/efi-bgrt: remove the check of the version field Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> - 2016-08-17 07:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] x86/efi-bgrt: remove the check of the version field Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2016-08-19 03:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] x86/efi-bgrt: remove the check of the version field Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> - 2016-08-22 09:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] x86/efi-bgrt: remove the check of the version field Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> - 2016-08-24 09:40 +0200

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