On Sat 2014-01-18 11:42:31, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 03:01:55AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > I'd say that proposed "your bios has a bug" > > You can always unconditionally print "your bios has a bug". Just like > that. Without even looking.
Yeah, and we have linux-firmware testing toolkits, to discourage buggy bioses. In this case it is "your bios has rare and dangerous bug, see CVS-1234". > If you want to add a warning yourself, you can put it in rc.local using > userspace goodies like msr-tools. With them you can toggle that bit ad > absurdum - no need for the kernel except msr.ko. ?? By the time userspace is booted, you have overwritten the MSR, and information, if the BIOS is buggy, was lost. So linux-firmware testing toolkit actually has no chance to report this one. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/