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

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