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Re: [Xen-devel] approach for heavily hw-oriented values in smbios for gu
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| Subject: | Re: [Xen-devel] approach for heavily hw-oriented values in smbios for guests |
| From: | Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:57:50 +0000 |
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On 16/11/06 15:54, "Andrew D. Ball" <aball@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When I was implementing smbios, I occasionally put in mock values for > things like the data width of dimms, much to my chagrin. > > What do y'all think the best approach to such situations would be? If > specific migration groups were enforced, such that a guest will not be > migrated to a different type of cpu/memory/etc., putting accuracte data > there makes sense to me. Otherwise, I'd prefer to put no values. > However, even though the SMBIOS 2.4 standard specifies lots of places > where a value of 'unknown' is syntactically valid, the comformance > guidelines require a ton of very hardware oriented things to be fully > specified. I'm pretty sure that consistent lying is the best approach for most such fields. -- Keir _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel |
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