Re: [PATCH v2 12/12] driver: Google Memory Console

From: Tim Hockin
Date: Mon Mar 14 2011 - 10:01:35 EST


This same BIOS logic is used across a number of Platforms. We could
use something like the vendor strings to trigger this code off, I
suppose, but ick. It's already in a google/ subdir and wrapped with
CONFIG_GOOGLE_MEMCONSOLE.



On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 03/13/2011 09:58 PM, Tim Hockin wrote:
>> > "Sufficient" or not, that's how the BIOSes we've got work.  We can't
>> > retrofit that.
>>
>> Uhm... what about, say, a DMI signature?
>
> Yes - how does the dmidecode output look like on such a box?
>
> Thanks,
>
>        Ingo
>
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