[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/7] efi_loader: Expose SMBIOS table

[Bin Meng]

Hi Simon,

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 5:44 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
>
> On 8 August 2016 at 08:06, Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de> wrote:
>> We generate a few tables on x86 today that really can be used on ARM just
>> the same. One such example is the SMBIOS table, which people use with tools
>> like "dmidecode" to identify which hardware they are running on.
>>
>> We're slowly growing needs to collect serial numbers from various devices
>> on ARM and SMBIOS seems the natural choice. So this patch set moves the
>> current SMBIOS generation into generic code and adds serial number exposure
>> to it.
>
> Shouldn't we use device tree? Why would an ARM device use SMBIOS?
>

I believe the reason of using SMBIOS on ARM is with U-Boot's bootefi support.
https://wiki.linaro.org/ARM/UEFI/SMBIOS

Regards,
Bin