From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] ACPI / trace: Add trace interface for eMCA driver Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:32:18 -0300 Message-ID: <20131017073218.11aae607@samsung.com> References: <1381473166-29303-1-git-send-email-gong.chen@linux.intel.com> <1381473166-29303-9-git-send-email-gong.chen@linux.intel.com> <20131015165435.GA2777@naverao1-tp.ibm.com> <20131015170039.GF7908@pd.tnic> <525D7BCD.7080303@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20131015214346.68718bcd.m.chehab@samsung.com> <20131016091640.GA13608@pd.tnic> <20131016073539.5a48f65e.m.chehab@samsung.com> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F31D31C28@ORSMSX106.amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailout2.w2.samsung.com ([211.189.100.12]:38621 "EHLO usmailout2.samsung.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750726Ab3JQKcZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Oct 2013 06:32:25 -0400 In-reply-to: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F31D31C28@ORSMSX106.amr.corp.intel.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Borislav Petkov , "Naveen N. Rao" , "Chen, Gong" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , Aristeu Rozanski Filho , Steven Rostedt Em Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:35:32 +0000 "Luck, Tony" 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