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From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Chen, Gong" <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Aristeu Rozanski Filho <arozansk@redhat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] ACPI / trace: Add trace interface for eMCA driver
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:32:18 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131017073218.11aae607@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F31D31C28@ORSMSX106.amr.corp.intel.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-17 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-11  6:32 Extended H/W error log driver Chen, Gong
2013-10-11  6:32 ` [PATCH 1/8] ACPI, APEI, CPER: Fix status check during error printing Chen, Gong
2013-10-11  8:50   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-11  6:32 ` [PATCH 2/8] ACPI, CPER: Update cper info Chen, Gong
2013-10-11  9:06   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-11  9:06     ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-11 15:47     ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-16  1:57       ` Joe Perches
2013-10-16  2:46         ` Chen Gong
2013-10-16  3:10           ` Joe Perches
2013-10-15 18:17   ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-10-16  1:39     ` Chen Gong
2013-10-17 12:21       ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-10-18 11:06         ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-10-11  6:32 ` [PATCH 3/8] ACPI, x86: Extended error log driver for x86 platform Chen, Gong
2013-10-11 15:24   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-14  3:16     ` Chen Gong
2013-10-14 10:26       ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-14 13:03         ` Chen Gong
2013-10-14 13:28           ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-14 16:50         ` Tony Luck
2013-10-14 17:07           ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-14 17:16             ` Tony Luck
2013-10-11  6:32 ` [PATCH 4/8] DMI: Parse memory device (type 17) in SMBIOS Chen, Gong
2013-10-11 15:40   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-14  3:21     ` Chen Gong
2013-10-14 10:30       ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-15 19:00   ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-10-11  6:32 ` [PATCH 5/8] ACPI, APEI, CPER: Add UEFI 2.4 support for memory error Chen, Gong
2013-10-11 15:41   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-15 17:26   ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-10-16  1:35     ` Chen Gong
2013-10-11  6:32 ` [PATCH 6/8] ACPI, APEI, CPER: Enhance memory reporting capability Chen, Gong
2013-10-11 15:49   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-15 19:18   ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-10-11  6:32 ` [PATCH 7/8] ACPI, APEI, CPER: Cleanup CPER memory error output format Chen, Gong
2013-10-11 16:02   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-14  4:55     ` Chen Gong
2013-10-14 10:36       ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-14 17:12         ` Tony Luck
2013-10-14 18:47           ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-14 21:03             ` Tony Luck
2013-10-14 21:50               ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-15  9:18                 ` Chen Gong
2013-10-15 10:13                   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-15 11:28           ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-10-15 11:41           ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-10-15 12:29             ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-15 16:42               ` Joe Perches
2013-10-15 16:49                 ` Tony Luck
2013-10-15 16:56                   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-11  6:32 ` [PATCH 8/8] ACPI / trace: Add trace interface for eMCA driver Chen, Gong
2013-10-11  7:52   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-11 16:14   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-14  7:07     ` Chen Gong
2013-10-15 16:54   ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-10-15 17:00     ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-15 17:30       ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-10-15 17:47         ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-16  0:43         ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2013-10-16  9:16           ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-16 10:35             ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2013-10-16 10:42               ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-16 11:55                 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2013-10-16 12:20                   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-16 20:47                   ` Luck, Tony
2013-10-17 10:34                     ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2013-10-17 21:35                       ` Luck, Tony
2013-10-16 20:35               ` Luck, Tony
2013-10-17 10:32                 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab [this message]
2013-10-16  9:50     ` Chen Gong
2013-10-16 10:49       ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-18 11:04         ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-10-11  7:00 ` Extended H/W error log driver Joe Perches
2013-10-11  8:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-11 14:54   ` Luck, Tony
2013-10-11 14:54     ` Luck, Tony
2013-10-11 15:27     ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-14  6:49   ` Chen Gong
2013-10-14 10:55     ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-15  4:07       ` Chen Gong
2013-10-15  9:28         ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-15 16:15           ` Tony Luck
2013-10-15 19:10             ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-10-15 19:23               ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-17 12:07                 ` Naveen N. Rao
2013-10-17 13:04                   ` Borislav Petkov

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