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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:01:37 -0700 From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> To: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>, "linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Bob Moore <robert.moore@...el.com>, Linux ACPI <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>, "Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)" <elliott@....com>, juston.li@...el.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] acpi/nfit: Update nfit driver to comply with ACPI 6.1 On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 2:43 PM Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com> wrote: > > ACPI 6.1, Table 5-133, updates NVDIMM Control Region Structure > as follows. > - Valid Fields, Manufacturing Location, and Manufacturing Date > are added from reserved range. No change in the structure size. > - IDs (SPD values) are stored as arrays of bytes (i.e. big-endian > format). The spec clarifies that they need to be represented > as arrays of bytes as well. > Circling back on this a couple years too late... where are you reading this "arrays of bytes" note. As far as I can see this is wrong. JEDEC says that vendor id is stored LSB of the id is stored at the lowest byte in SPD, which is little endian. So it seems Linux has showing the incorrect value for a long time now.
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