Re: binary garbage in dmesg/boot messages (2.2.18pre23)

From: Ethan Benson (erbenson@alaska.net)
Date: Thu Nov 23 2000 - 10:58:53 EST

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On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 03:31:51PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Board Name: Agate.
> > Board Version: AA662195-305.
>
> So far so good
>
> > BIOS Vendor: f.=A3^]<94>fA=E8^D.=A3ESC<94>^N^_
>
> This looks like the table end markers are missing or the length was wrong.
> If you change
>
> static int __init dmi_table(u32 base, int len, int num, void (*decode)(struct d
> {
> char *buf;
> struct dmi_header *dm;
> u8 *data;
> int i=0;
>
> in arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c to use
>
> int i=1;
>
> does it then behave nicely ?
>

yes sure does, thanks!

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Ethan Benson
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