Bug 488579

Summary: DMI broken on EFI
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Brian Maly <bmaly>
Component: kernelAssignee: Brian Maly <bmaly>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: bmaly, ddumas, kernel-maint, pjones, quintela
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Description Brian Maly 2009-03-04 21:01:13 UTC 
Description of problem: DMI no longer works on EFI systems


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How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot system
2. Observe that DMI did not initialize in dmesg
3.
  
Actual results:
DMI does not initialize

Expected results:
DMI should initialize and reported as initialized in dmesg


Additional info:
Comment 1 Brian Maly 2009-03-04 21:02:53 UTC 
dmi scan is called before efi_init(). This causes dmi not to initialize (dmi tables are extraced by efi_init) and also causes efifb not to load on Apple hardware because the driver depends on dmi matching.
Comment 2 Brian Maly 2009-03-04 21:04:29 UTC 
Created attachment 334066 [details]
patch to resolve the issue

I pushed this patch upstream.

Upstream commit:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=commitdiff;h=ff0c0874905fb312ca1491bbdac2653b0b48c20b