On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 02:37:08AM +0000, Bard Liao wrote:
Add some Intel folks.
the target for this change is internal-only development hardware it doesn't seem unreasonable to expect people to be able to keep changes like device ID updates internally. This is one of the many costs of BIOSes that require us to do such DMI hacks, it'd be much better to improve the firmware and the driver so they can specify required properties directly rather than relying on DMI.
Agree. We will find a more reasonable way (maybe ACPI) to specify required properties directly. However, I can expect that will take time. If you think use "coreboot" is not a good idea, can we match the DMI_PRODUCT_NAME field just like before until we finish the implementation of specifying required properties directly?
Sure, new matches for specific products are fine - it's just that this is too big a wildcard.