Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 1 Mar 2012 19:45:44 +0100 | | From | Borislav Petkov <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] mce: Add a msg string to the MCE tracepoint |
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On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 06:15:46PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: > > On all the above, the socket label starts on 1, but I bet we'll find cases > > where it start from 0. > Agreed. "Socket Designation" seems to be a free format string at the whim of > the board designer (and then interpreted and string filled in by a BIOS writer > with all the usual caveats that implies). > > I suppose a smart reporting system would try to query this stuff ahead of > time to determine whether socket numbers were zero based, one based, or something > else altogether (Socket A, B, C ????)
Query from where? (And pls don't tell me DMI tables. :-))
I don't think there's a mapping between board designer nomenclature and BIOS values for the node ID you get from apic IDs and etc CPUID leafs.
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