[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] smbios: generate the correct the number of SMBIOS type 4 reocrds

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Wed Dec 11 18:47:31 CET 2013


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 08:13:36AM -0600, Bret Ketchum wrote:
> This patch uses cpuid to determine the number of packages/sockets in which
> to
> generate the proper number of DMI/SMBIOS Type 4 (Processor Information)
> records.
> 
> Use "dmidevcode -t 4" to show that only the configured number of
> packages/sockets are shown versus the number of CPUs
> (sockets*cores*threads).

Thanks Bret.

The SMBIOS stored in seabios is really a function of QEMU.  So,
discussions on its correct content and changes to it need to be
discussed on the QEMU mailing list.  Going forward, we want to move
all the ACPI, SMBIOS, and MPTable changes to the QEMU side.

-Kevin



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