Kernel shows taint 512 when quiet boot enabled

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

When booting up systems with quiet mode enabled in BIOS. The kernel may report that the Kernel is tainted: When 'cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted' is run. The kernel Taint value 512 .

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7

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