> On Apr 8, 2026, at 03:26, Jean Delvare <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Matt,
> 
> On Tue, 2026-04-07 at 17:24 +0000, Matt Ochs wrote:
>>> On Apr 7, 2026, at 02:47, Jean Delvare <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> What led you to believe that this field is relevant to EDSFF slots?
>> 
>> On NVIDIA Vera Rubin systems I’m seeing the Slot Information field
>> populated for E1.S (EDSFF E1) slots, and since EDSFF is a PCIe-based
>> form factor it seems reasonable to decode and display this as the PCI
>> Express generation when the firmware provides a non-zero value.
>> 
>> The SMBIOS 3.9 section 7.10.10 “System Slots — Slot Information” also
>> feels a bit vague here with respect to newer form factors like EDSFF,
>> so I erred on the side of exposing what firmware actually provides.
>> 
>> That’s what led me to extend dmi_slot_information() to cover C5/C6 in
>> the same way as other PCIe slot types.
> 
> OK, that makes sense.
> 
> Would you be able to provide to me (privately) a dump of the DMI table
> of one of these systems, so that I can test the patch myself and also
> include it in my non-regression test suite?

Yes, I will send you a dump of the table.


-matt

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