Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH][SEABIOS] Make SMBIOS table pass MS SVVP test

[Yaniv Kaul]

On 11/22/2009 7:39 PM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:


<SNIP>
> > > >/* Type 16 -- Physical Memory Array */
> > > >@@ -239,7 +240,7 @@ smbios_init_type_16(void *start, u32 
> > > memory_size_mb, int nr_mem_devs)
> > > >
> > > >    p->location = 0x01; /* other */
> > > >    p->use = 0x03; /* system memory */
> > > >-    p->error_correction = 0x01; /* other */
> > > >+    p->error_correction = 0x06; /* Multi-bit ECC to make Microsoft 
> > > happy */
> > > >    p->maximum_capacity = memory_size_mb * 1024;
> > > >    p->memory_error_information_handle = 0xfffe; /* none provided */
> > > >    p->number_of_memory_devices = nr_mem_devs;
> > >
> > > Does it happen to work with "Unknown" or "None"?
> > No. They explicitly request single or multi-bit ECC. Though I was told
> > that Microsoft gives exception for this requirement.
>
> Odd. Why do they care whether the VM reports (non existent) error 
> correction support.


The test probably does not realize it's a VM and SVVP runs the 2008R2 
system tests - which requires ECC memory (and PCI express bus for 
network and block devices, but that's another exception).
Y.

> > --
> > Gleb.
>
> - Sebastian