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SubjectRe: [patch] SMP alternatives
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 11:12:14PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2005-11-24 at 20:14 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > I proposed something like that - best with an ASCII string
> > ("First DIMM on the top left corner") But getting such stuff into BIOS
> > is difficult and long winded.
>
> Propose it the desktop management people and get it into the DMI
> standard. They already have entries for each memory slot, they already
> have entries for descriptive strings for connectors. In fact you may
> well be able to 'bend' the spec enough to do it as is.

There are enough fields that maybe one of them is loose enough to mean
this. It doesn't help us convince mobo vendors to support it, though.
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