Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:32:18 -0300 | From | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 8/8] ACPI / trace: Add trace interface for eMCA driver |
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Em Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:35:32 +0000 "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> escreveu:
> > Are there any changes with regards to that, like some enforcement policy > > for BIOS manufacturers to make it right? > > I am using a cricket bat to beat BIOS teams that implement eMCA to make > sure they get the labels in SMBIOS right. :-)
:)
> It's a non-trivial implementation effort to get all the decoding done for > the eMCA log. It's typically a simple string change to fix the SMBIOS > table ... there has been some resistance - but so far I have been victorious. > Wish me luck as I'm about to engage with another team.
Yes, the DMI changes are trivial. Let's hope that they'll do it right.
Yet, I think we should keep (at least for a while) a mechanism similar to what EDAC does, allowing those names to be overridden by loading a different table, where needed.
Regards, Mauro
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