Problems with acpi and dmidecode

[Danny Kukawka]

On Monday 10 October 2005 23:38, Richard Hughes wrote:
> My experimental patches failed to work to fix the broken BIOS of a
> COMPAQ EVO N160, for reasons that I now realise:
>
> smbios.* is set after acpi_synthesize_hotplug_events is called.
>
> My dmidecode idea made the BIOS correction check in acpi.c.
>
> There are two ways to fix this:
>
> 1. Call hal_util_helper_invoke ("hald-probe-smbios") before we call
> acpi_synthesize_hotplug_events (which will work, and hal-probe-smbios
> should just exit cleanly with powermacs, as dmidecode isn't found..)
>
> 2. We can do the ACPI BIOS corrections in osspec.c (not ideal, as it
> leaks the acpi specific bits into a general module)
>

3. Maybe use fdi file which merge the keys if match realted smbios.* keys and 
add a key with stringlist of needed ACPI_QUIRK_NOT_* . This would also be 
easyer to maintain, changeable by the user and more generic.

Cheers,

Danny