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

[Simon Glass]

Hi Alexander,

On 9 August 2016 at 00:48, Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de> wrote:
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>> Am 08.08.2016 um 23:44 schrieb Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>:
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>> 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?
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> Mostly because SBBR dictates it and every ARM server platform out there provides SMBIOS tables ;).
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> 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.

So there is no DT binding for this information? Does this mean that
U-Boot on ARM needs to pass information through just 'sitting in RAM
somewhere' like x86?

Regards,
Simon