<div dir="ltr">I shall throw my hat into the ring and say that not only do I find this useful, I even independently developed my own patch that does the exact same thing.<div><br></div><div>The problem is that system-serial is there, but deceptive: on a blade system it is not unique. It seems sensible to provide easy access to a serial that is unique (board serial) on an equal footing with system-serial, and to document the clear difference between the two.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Michael Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mcb30@ipxe.org" target="_blank">mcb30@ipxe.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 11/06/14 21:30, Dale Hamel wrote:<br>
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@mcb30 <<a href="https://github.com/mcb30" target="_blank">https://github.com/mcb30</a>> thoughts on exposing board level<div class=""><br>
serial / product since we already do for chassis, and board info is more<br>
useful on blade nodes?<br>
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All of the SMBIOS information is already exposed via constructed settings, e.g.<br>
<br>
${smbios/2.7.0} # this is your "board-serial"<br>
${smbios/2.5.0} # this is your "board-product"<br>
<br>
Since all of the information can already be accessed, the question becomes whether or not these settings will be sufficiently widely used (compared to all of the other information available via SMBIOS) to justify giving them names.<br>
<br>
There is a non-zero cost of naming a setting; each named setting costs approximately 20+<name_len>+<description_<u></u>len> bytes: for example, "board-serial" will cost 20+13+18=51 bytes.<br>
<br>
So, to merge this patch, I need to know that it will be sufficiently useful to a sufficiently large number of people to justify the code size cost.<br>
<br>
Michael<br>
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