RE: [PATCH 3/3] mce: acpi/apei: trace: Enable ghes memory error trace event

Luck, Tony
2013-08-15T19:20:34Z

> AFAIKT, APEI doesn't provide the silkscreen label. Some code (or some
> datasheet) is needed to translate between what APEI provides into the
> silkscreen label.

In theory it could. The ACPI generic error structure used to report includes
a 20-byte free format field which a BIOS could use to describe the location
of the error. Haven't seen anyone do this yet - and our internal BIOS people
looked at me like I was crazy to suggest such a thing. But I still entertain
hopes that some OEM will do the right thing and raise the bar of usefulness.

-Tony