Re: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Jul 20 2017 - 00:20:01 EST


On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 02:55:08PM -0400, Aristeu Rozanski wrote:
> That would also need to keep an eye on versions. A newer version of BIOS
> on a whitelisted platform might be broken.

Yeah, that would be a nasty, back-stabbing SNAFU.

So I'm thinking of adding a bunch of FW_ERR sanity checks to that whole
ghes_edac and ghes init code to hopefully catch issues during platform
validation. I.e., early enough for them to get fixed.

But that's the same problem as with UEFI - vendors need to try to boot
Linux on their platforms early enough.

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