[OLPC-devel] OLPC "bootloader"

[Ronald G Minnich]

Ray.Tseng at quantatw.com wrote:
> Jim,
> 	You point out electronic serial number issues.
> In manufacture process
> 1) We have the rule to generate the ESN, and print its bar code at flow control card.
> 2) Every machine is tied with a flow control card.
> 3) We will use the scanner to read the ESN bar code.
> 4) Write the ESN into system with utility
> 5) We can dowload the right image from server accroding to the ESN.
> 
> 	Here comes a few question?
> 1) You will follow the System Management BIOS(SMBIOS) standard?

Which part of the standard do you mean?

> 2) Your ESN format?
What is the current favored format?

> 3) Have you reserved the room in SPI flash to keep these information?

I will assume this is a small size. can we put it in a small region at
the top of the keybaord BIOS?

ron