On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 09:52:32AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> What that means is that the utility to read the JEDEC registers would need to:
> 
> 1/ Determine if the DIMM is standard JEDEC defined DIMM (the ACPI NFIT
> should indicate this)
> 
> 2/ Determine if the BIOS provides a DSM command family for the DIMM
> that enables direct SMBUS commands.
> 
> 3/ Craft the command in the proper format and send it to the Linux driver.

if 1 and 2 are successfull shouldn't we have a bus driver for the
in-kernel i2c subsystem that uses the dsm methods?  Those way both
kernel clients for it, or userspace programs through /dev/i2c*
could access it?

(and yes, someone would have to write that code, but maybe Brian
would be interested in that)
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