Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

>> Looks like the DMI table is crap, I think you'll confirm that :)
>
> Well it's not crap -- the format for the bank locator is not standardized
> and I just made it work on some common systems. So actually failures
> for the prefill happen quite often. Unfortunately the SMBIOS 

That was my understanding seeing how the code was refactored in git :)

> standard does not have a standardized way to do the matching mcelog
> wants to do, but my test boxes allowed it through the non standard
> parsing so I implemented it this way.

Is there anything you'd need beside the dmidecode output to determine if
something can be done to support this machine?

> Also I should add the matching only helps you when it knows
> your CPU (is that on a Nehalem system?)

AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 945 Processor stepping 02

Running with 8 GB, i386 userland.

> Possibly the error message could be a bit better.

I guess it could, yes, and distinguishing that from the duplicate entry
case would help too :)

JB.

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