On Wed, 2025-12-10 at 13:37 +0100, Erwan Velu wrote: > This reporting is correct from a specification standpoint but this requires > people to read it like Type=E1 + Length=Short = E1.S > In the infra world, everyone considers E1.S as a common name. > So ideally, I'd love to get an exception on this reporting to get the > following output: > > Handle 0x00BD, DMI type 9, 23 bytes > System Slot Information > Designation: EDSFF port 1 > Type: EDSFF E1.S > (...) > Length: Short > ID: 1 > > We'd keep the length to report the actual physical slot size but add a .S or > .L in the port type to get a name that matters/make sense for users. > This way the Type is closer to the real world naming and hardware > specificaitions.
Sure, if it makes more sense for infra people then we can implement it the way you described. Could you provide (off-list) a binary dump of a DMI table implementing such a System Slot Information record? So that I can test my code. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support
