Re: [REGRESSION] firmware: dmi_scan: add SBMIOS entry and DMI tables

2016-03-28 Thread Ivan Khoronzhuk
On 28.03.16 15:44, ivan.khoronzhuk wrote: Hi Paul, The dmi_remap() is arch dependent function and for mainline used as ioremap_cache for x86, arm.. And only for ia64 as ioremap (where it's same as ioremap_cache). I'm talking about k4.5. k4.5 -> v4.6-rc1. It's rather bug of dmi_remap than

Re: [REGRESSION] firmware: dmi_scan: add SBMIOS entry and DMI tables

2016-03-28 Thread ivan.khoronzhuk
Hi Paul, The dmi_remap() is arch dependent function and for mainline used as ioremap_cache for x86, arm.. And only for ia64 as ioremap (where it's same as ioremap_cache). I'm talking about k4.5. It's rather bug of dmi_remap than the patch which just use it. The only reason why the bug wasn't f

[REGRESSION] firmware: dmi_scan: add SBMIOS entry and DMI tables

2016-03-28 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Ivan, dear Jeann, There is an unwanted regression due to commit d7f96f97 (firmware: dmi_scan: add SBMIOS entry and DMI tables). Since Linux kernel 4.2 the utility `cbmem`, used to access information stored in memory, from the coreboot project [1] does not work anymore on a lot of systems as