config changes

Chris Wright chrisw at redhat.com
Tue Jan 13 23:06:13 UTC 2009


* Matt Domsch (Matt_Domsch at dell.com) wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 01:39:13PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> > Upstream was still broken as recently as Friday for bad BIOSes (x200s in
> > this case).  Wonder if opt-in via cmdline would be helpful?
> 
> Do you know enough about the failure cases to DMI quirk it, plus an
> opt-out command line option, with it enabled as default?

There is opt-out already.  As Kyle pointed out, that particular issue
has been fixed (as was another one w/ busted BIOS about a week ago).
It's just an arms race ;-)

FWIW, I'm in favor of enabling it (particularly to help aid KVM device
assignement in rawhide).

thanks,
-chris




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