Subject: Re: [PATCH] [arch-x86] Allow SRAT integrity check to be skipped

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:03:40 -0700

On 09/07/2010 11:55 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]> writes:
>>
>> If this is a production BIOS it should have this information.
> 
> The point was -- it wasn't a production BIOS and the production
> BIOS will be fixed.
> 

>>From the original description:

This patch adds a boot parameter to allow a kernel to be booted
with the option to skip the SRAT check.  There are BIOSes in
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
production that have these failures, so this will allow people
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
in the field to work around these BIOS issues.

Agreed that command-line option is a good thing to have in general and
that it is not necessary to have DMI quirks for preproduction BIOSes.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.