Hi!
> > Now.. how do we fix this? Whitelist on both bios version and
> > northbridge/videocard PCI IDs?
>
> If we go that way, the DMI stuff may become irrelevant, since the subvendor
> ids are basically as accurate as the DMI entries anyway. For example:
>
> 00:02.0 Class 0300: 8086:3582 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> Subsystem: 10f7:8338
>
> Subsystem 10f7:8338 seems to point to only a few Panasonic models, which
> are probably likely to be pretty similar from a chipset / needed workaround
> point of view.
>
> Or the
>
> 00:02.0 Class 0300: 8086:3582 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> Subsystem: 103c:08bc
>
> seems to match the nx5000's pretty nicely.
>
> This would even solve the problem that there are HPs with almost the same
> DMI info but totally different Hardware around:
> /* Fabio Comolli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, dv4378ea, ATI X700 */
> { "Hewlett-Packard", "Pavilion dv4000 (ES973EA#*", "", "",
> VBE_POST|VBE_SAVE|NOFB },
> /* Damien Raude-Morvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, This is a dv4052ea,
> i915GM */
> { "Hewlett-Packard", "Pavilion dv4000 (EB911EA#*", "", "",
> S3_BIOS },
>
> And the same happens to be true for IBM ThinkPad R60/T60, which can be pretty
> similar, or quite different.
Well, we'll need some way to do transition from DMI to pci ids... who
does the patch? ;-).
Pavel
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