Re: EFI-support for SMBIOS driver

From: David Mosberger
Date: Fri Jun 04 2004 - 22:50:54 EST


>>>>> On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 20:29:02 -0700, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> said:

Greg> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 05:52:21PM -0700, David Mosberger
Greg> wrote:

>> The patch below adds EFI support to the SMBIOS driver.

Greg> The smbios driver is gone in 2.6.7-rc. You don't need a
Greg> driver for this, as you can do everything from userspace.

I know full well that it can be done in user-level --- via /dev/mem,
which lots of people dislike. I certainly don't feel strongly about
it, but the SMBIOS driver made sense to me.

--david
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