On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 01:04 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > If somebody really wants to implement the complex matching in s2ram, there
> > > should be no problem to either implement an fdi parser or just write a 
> > > small
> > > converter that "compiles" the HAL fdi files to include them at compile 
> > > time
> > > into the s2ram binary.
> > 
> > Compiling fdi files would be possible, too. Advantage is that we could
> > put pre-compiled whitelist.c into distribution.
> 
> Actually, looking at the blog entry... I'm not sure fdi buys us
> anything.
> 
> It is XML. Looks cool, but that is it.
> 
> It uses different criteria (PCI vendor [sub]IDs). Are they better?

Seems to work just the same as we are matching both the card and the
subvendor (i.e. the system builder) and seems to work in a more general
way to raw dmi matching.

> It does not seem to be able to do light-grey-listing...

I think we can (and should), but I'm not sure how to express this in an
FDI file.

> It does not seem to be able to match using DMI.

Yes, you can match against smbios.* stuff on the computer object if you
wish to (that's used for lots of other stuff like laptop panels too).

Richard.



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