Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "Luck, Tony" <> | | Subject | RE: [PATCH 1/3] mce: Add a msg string to the MCE tracepoint | | Date | Thu, 1 Mar 2012 18:58:31 +0000 |
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> Query from where? (And pls don't tell me DMI tables. :-))
Sorry - but DMI is all we've got. We need to start using it, and have people report bugs when it is wrong. Then it might get better. Linux has had some success in shaming BIOS writers with:
printk("Your BIOS is buggy ...")
Our biggest problem here is the life-cycle ... by the time Linux users start seeing these problems, the BIOS people have already moved on to the next generation system.
BUT - if Linux wants to play in RAS space - we need this to be right - and to do that we need SMBIOS (DMI) bugs to be regarded as priority #1.
-Tony
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