On 03/05/09 12:37, Cynthia A. McGuire wrote:
+1 with some additional questions and comments to be addressed as this project
develops.
I'll take a stab at these, though some may progress as the project does.
- Is a Sun standard for SMBIOS a product of this project?
We will publish an SMBIOS requirements document for Solaris x86 FMA
Topology Enumeration. I don't want to say it's a "Sun standard for
SMBIOS" because we do want inclusion of other i86pc vendors. This doc
will outline additional value offered by vendors following it.
- Does this project have a dependency on changes to the SMBIOS standard?
While an extension to the SMBIOS proposal has come out of this project,
currently it is not a dependency. This may change if there is no other
way to identify what cpu strand belongs to which cpu chip.
- Why are we not addressing Sparc platform conformance to the SMBIOS standard?
This is out of scope for this project.
- The scope of this project needs to narrowed to just the topology that the
enumerator will address. You surely are not suggesting to enumerate every FRU
for every x86 platform from a single enumerator.
No, not at all. Basically in one form or another, we'll enumerate:
chassis // base board // chip/core/strand //
memory-controller/memory-device // I/O.
For chip/core/strand and memory-controller/memory-device we'll be
modifying the i86pc chip.so enumerator and calling it.
For I/O we'll be calling the hostbridge/pcibus enumerator(s). We still
need to work this out.
- With the above in mind, what portion of the x86 topology do you propose to
enumerate? Going forward, I'd like to see some sample fmtopo output
(hierarchy, names, etc...).
We'll enumerate in the hc scheme. Here's an example of a cpu strand:
hc://:product-id=SUN-FIRE-XXX:chassis-id=0838SUN032:server-id=sunw-03/chassis=0/motherboard=0/chip=0/core=0/strand=0
- Where will your code repository be located?
The plan is to putback to Solaris Nevada. It's an fmd plugin module so
will live in $SRC/lib/fm/topo/modules/i86pc/x86pi/
thx,
-t
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