[Qemu-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] SMBIOS strings

[Gleb Natapov]

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 09:32:08AM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> On 05/28/10 17:44, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 05:24:47PM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> >> I guess the Socket Designation in particular might have been done for a
> >> reason?
> >>
> > It was part of commit cf2affa6de. And was a result of moving to
> > snprintf() instead of direct string manipulation. Before that
> > string was created like that:
> >     memcpy((char *)start, "CPU  " "\0" "" "\0" "", 7);
> >        ((char *)start)[4] = cpu_number + '0';
> > Which start to produce strange cpu numbers for cpus greater then 9. I
> > doubt we want to go back to that ;)
> 
> Hi Gleb,
> 
> I see. Well I guess we could do something slightly more compatible by
> printing along the lines:
> 
> printf("CPU:");
> if (nr < 10)
>     printf(" ");
> snprintf()
> 
You mean snprintf() not printf?  AFAIR you can tell snprintf to pad with
spaces not zeroes.

> Not sure if it is worth it, but it should be doable without reverting to
> memcpy().
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
I don't care much as long as we will not have "CPU :". It looks like something
that can change after BIOS upgrade, so it is hard to believe Windows
will stop working because of this change.


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                        Gleb.