Em Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:35:32 +0000 "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
