[OLPC-devel] OLPC "bootloader"

[Ray.Tseng at quantatw.com]

Ron,
1) Surf http://www.dmtf.org/standards/smbios/ 
    System Information (Type 1) offset 07h - Serial number string
    and the interface to get/set the structure.	

2) 16 bytes including 1 byte for year, 2 bytes for week, 4 bytes for sequential number and etc.

Ray Tseng 6/26/06

-----Original Message-----
From: devel-bounces at laptop.org [mailto:devel-bounces at laptop.org] On Behalf Of Ronald G Minnich
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 11:57 AM
To: Ray Tseng (曾文瑞)
Cc: devel at laptop.org
Subject: Re: [OLPC-devel] OLPC "bootloader"

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
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