[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 3/6] update bios date

[Sebastian Herbszt]

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Linux ignores some information from acpi in case the bios is old
> as acpi support used to be buggy in the early days.  This affects
> ressources for example (unless forced with pci=use_crs).  So lets
> go for something more recent.  With this patch applied the
> ressources for \\SB.PCI0 will show up in /proc/{iomem,ioports},
> tagged as "PCI Bus 0000:00".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com>
> ---
> src/smbios.c |    2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/smbios.c b/src/smbios.c
> index fe1e183..0720673 100644
> --- a/src/smbios.c
> +++ b/src/smbios.c
> @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ smbios_entry_point_init(u16 max_structure_size,
>     } while (0)
> 
> /* Type 0 -- BIOS Information */
> -#define RELEASE_DATE_STR "01/01/2007"
> +#define RELEASE_DATE_STR "01/01/2011"
> static void *
> smbios_init_type_0(void *start)
> {
> -- 

A pointer in the commit message to the linux code (pci_acpi_crs_quirks?)
might be useful and explain why 2007 is not recent enough.

Sebastian