[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] pci_rom.c checksum extension rom

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Thu Oct 18 10:09:09 CEST 2007


* ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> [071018 09:25]:
> On 9/12/07, Alex Beregszaszi <alex at rtfs.hu> wrote:
> It worries me, given the habit pc vendors have of shipping broken IRQ,
> ACPI, and other tables, to make us dependent on them actually getting
> the checksum correct. Unless and until we do some testing to verify
> that the checksums are correct on a  lot of cards, I would rather make
> this a warning rather than an error.

Yes, it needs to be a warning!

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