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From: Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:01:02 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 12/12] driver: Google Memory Console
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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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@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@kernel.org> 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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