Re: [Xen-devel] approach for heavily hw-oriented values in smbios for guests

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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



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