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On Iau, 2005-11-24 at 20:14 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> I proposed something like that - best with an ASCII string
> ("First DIMM on the top left corner") But getting such stuff into BIOS 
> is difficult and long winded.

Propose it the desktop management people and get it into the DMI
standard. They already have entries for each memory slot, they already
have entries for descriptive strings for connectors. In fact you may
well be able to 'bend' the spec enough to do it as is.