Re: [PATCH 1/2] Save SMBIOS Type 9 System Slots during DMI Scan

From: Jean Delvare
Date: Fri Nov 27 2015 - 06:46:01 EST


Le Friday 27 November 2015 Ã 10:25 +0100, Jean Delvare a Ãcrit :
> Also note that the SMBIOS specification says that the segment/bus/devfn
> fields should be ffs for non-PCI-like slots. dmidecode decodes these
> fields regardless of the type, but that is incorrect (although not much
> of an issue in practice I suppose as PCI rules the world.)

Correction... dmidecode checks that fields aren't all ffs, and if not,
decodes the segment/bus/devfn. Apparently I decided it was easier to do
it that way than to check the slot type. Even if it does not follow the
specification stricto sensu.

--
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support

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