From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] hvmloader: remove timestamp from smbios
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 09:42:45 +0100
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On Wed, Feb 04, Jan Beulich wrote:

> http://dmtf.org/sites/default/files/standards/documents/DSP0134_2.8.0.pdf
> (in particular section 7.1 and table 5)

"The date string, if supplied, is in either mm/dd/yy or mm/dd/yyyy format."

To me it sounds like an optional thing. An empty string is as
informative as any other random date. 

But before the bikeshedding starts I think its best to turn the
assignment in the Makefiles from "VAR = VAL" into "VAR ?= VAL". This
preserves existing practice and gives us the opportunity to pass
01/01/1970 as fixed VAL.

Olaf