[Arm-netbook] identification eeprom: data layout

[luke.leighton]

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i’m going to try this again in a new thread and with hopefully more clarity. i
> mixed 4 related topics into one email last time and apparently that doesn’t
> work here,

 the usual mailing list rules you'd expect are a bit... lax here :)

> which is fine. i’ll try again and break this into dedicated threads
> for each so we can (hopefully) discuss each topic without distraction.

 ack.

> this email is about the layout of data on the EEPROM.

 ... i've cut/paste this revision into here so that it can be merged in
 http://elinux.org/Talk:Embedded_Open_Modular_Architecture/EOMA-68/EEPROM_Data_Format

> Purpose:
>
> Each chassis needs to ship chassis-specific information such as the vendor and
> device ID on the identification EEPROM.