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

[Alexander Graf]

> Am 08.08.2016 um 23:44 schrieb Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>:
> 
> 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?

Mostly because SBBR dictates it and every ARM server platform out there provides SMBIOS tables ;).

Also, both describe very different things. At least I have never seen things like "The chassy of this server has 2 power connectors and is blue" in device tree.


Alex