On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 07:20:29PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> In theory it could. The ACPI generic error structure used to report
> includes a 20-byte free format field which a BIOS could use to
> describe the location of the error. Haven't seen anyone do this yet -
> and our internal BIOS people looked at me like I was crazy to suggest
> such a thing. But I still entertain hopes that some OEM will do the
> right thing and raise the bar of usefulness.
Sadly, I can report similar experiences.
I did try to get the RAS hw people persuaded that spitting out the DIMM
mapping is best done by the BIOS because it has that info already -
it is a matter of carrying it out. Alas, more important events took
place... :)
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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