[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: rt5645: add "coreboot" to dmi_system_id list

[Mark Brown]

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.
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