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On 02/08/2015 01:54 PM, David Michael wrote:
> The following are two use cases from Rajat Jain <rajatjain@juniper.net>:
> 
> 1) We have a board that boots Linux and this board itself can be plugged into one of different chassis types. We need to pass different parameters to the kernel based on the "CHASSIS_TYPE" information that is passed by the bios in the DMI / SMBIOS tables.
> 

Whups ... somehow stripped all the cc's on my original reply.

why isn't 1) already in the kernel itself?

P.