Re: Dell docking station & Dell Embedded Controller & PS/2 devices

On Monday 07 May 2018 20:32:16 Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote:

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The items that show up in this structure are supposed to be dynamic
values but static addresses.  I was asking to check before bootup in
case this was a problem of Linux caching SMBIOS table information once.
The values I was referring to might be for older generation dock though,
I'll see if I can find anything else you can check.

Can you check if structure type 08 or structure type 09 change based on
dock being plugged in?  Again you might have to do it across a boot
with/without dock in case of Linux kernel caches values.

The only difference is:

--- dmidecode_laptop_docked	2018-05-07 22:34:02.650325758 +0200
+++ dmidecode_laptop_undocked	2018-05-07 22:39:27.580306838 +0200

@@ -913,7 +913,7 @@ System Power Supply
 	Asset Tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
 	Model Part Number: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
 	Revision: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
-	Max Power Capacity: 90 W
+	Max Power Capacity: Unknown
 	Status: Present, OK
 	Type: Switching
 	Input Voltage Range Switching: Auto-switch

And this is in block Handle 0x003E, DMI type 39, 22 bytes - System Power
Supply. So looks like that DMI data are same.

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