From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Andrew D. Ball" Subject: Re: approach for heavily hw-oriented values in smbios for guests Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:17:48 -0500 Message-ID: <1163711868.24087.47.camel@localhost> References: <1163692476.24087.28.camel@localhost> <20061116183236.73601510@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: aball@linux.vnet.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20061116183236.73601510@localhost.localdomain> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Alan Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org As far as I know, SMBIOS data reflects the state of the system at boot time only. No updates after any sort of hot-plugging. However, I distantly remember some possibility of updating something, maybe a power state. However, the format of the data is so fixed, that dynamic updates, like adding vCPUs are infeasible. Peace. Andrew On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 18:32 +0000, Alan wrote: > On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:54:36 -0500 > "Andrew D. Ball" wrote: > > > However, even though the SMBIOS 2.4 standard specifies lots of places > > where a value of 'unknown' is syntactically valid, the comformance > > guidelines require a ton of very hardware oriented things to be fully > > specified. > > Xen is just very hot-pluggable. I guess you either lie or change it to > match the hardware each time. Which is more correct unfortunately appears > to depend upon the desired answer but I'd favour the real hardware - for > diagnostics. > > Alan >