Just a bit of a side question here....

What about IO?

Where does it fall in this plan? Throughout this thread there has been a number of mentions about PCI and IPMI. No one has gone back and cleared up the issues mentioned there and
also there has been no mention of VPD as a source for enumeration.

Please don't push this off to a 'phase 2' project.

   -Leslie


On 03/04/09 05:54, Steve Hanson wrote:



The implementation approach aside, is there a general disagreement
with the project concept - enumerate from an industry standard source?

I'm certainly in agreement with the concept, though there are a few caveats.

- the data quality of the SMBIOS records is certainly a concern, and perhaps we need to take some precautions. Presumably FMA still needs to do something sensible on some 3rd party box with no useful data in its SMBIOS records. Also I think there needs to continue to be a simple mechanism for Solaris to override the labels taken from SMBIOS for when we find that SMBIOS has got them wrong (which I fear will
  still occasionally happen).

- As Gavin said earlier, you need to scope exactly what information is to be gleaned from SMBIOS and what is to be gleaned from elsewhere. Also it is important that the hc scheme is a physical representation not a logical one (so it is invariant if FRUs are added or disabled) and should have translation properties to find the logical cpuid,
 the IPMI FRU information etc.

Steve
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