On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 06:22:04PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 04:10:07PM +0000, Kani, Toshimitsu wrote: > > I do prefer to avoid any white / black listing. But I do not see how > > it solves the buggy DMI/SMBIOS info as an example of firmware bugs we > > may have to deal with. > > So how do you want to deal with this? > > Maintain an evergrowing whitelist of platforms which are OK and then the > moment a new platform comes along, you send a patch to add it to that > whitelist?
That would also need to keep an eye on versions. A newer version of BIOS on a whitelisted platform might be broken. -- Aristeu
