On 2014/3/3 7:11, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> So, if you are still suggesting we add EFI only, please let me know your >> plan about adding dmidecode table and if it's acceptable to add new >> tables, I have three waiting: ASUS-T100, Dell Venue 8 Pro, and Dell >> Venue 11 Pro. > > I don't think it's acceptable to add DMI entries to the reboot table. I > think you should add the EFI call (since we expect that to work now), > and I have no objection to adding cf9 to the end of the list if we have > standard PCI io ports (Windows doesn't do it, but we can hardly make > things worse). > Windows doesn't do because there is no 32/64 mixed windows and EFI on the planet. Since the silicon is actually 64 bit, I failed to see a reason to refuse the user install 64bit linux on it. So we encountered a case windows didn't.
So, you didn't mention BOOT_BIOS, if you don't want to add BOOT_BIOS, and you also don't like DMI entires, how do you want to deal with the machines requiring BOOT_BIOS to reboot their machine? Thanks, -Aubrey -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
