[PATCH 2/2 v3] smbios: Fallback to the default DT if sysinfo nodes are missing

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon Dec 18 16:01:39 CET 2023


Hi Neil,

On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 at 02:54, <neil.armstrong at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On 17/12/2023 19:41, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 11:46:18AM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> >> Hi Tom,
> >>
> >> On Thu, 14 Dec 2023 at 06:11, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> >>>
[..]

> > And my point with the above is that other SoC maintainers (Neil, for
> > amlogic) have said (paraphrasing) he does not want to do N smbios node
> > patches. Which is why Ilias' patch is if not 1000% correct, it's Good
> > Enough and will, if it's really a problem to have all lower case
> > information displayed, spur people to see providing that information as
> > a real problem that needs to be solved. Or it will be seen as good
> > enough.
> >
>
> If some platforms requires a more "correct" smbios dataset, then they're
> welcome adding the required smbios node, and it's perfectly understandable,
> but for the other community-maintained platforms we need some valid fallback
> data otherwise they'll be de facto excluded from some tools for no valid reasons.

Do you know which tools require SMBIOS tables? I found sos and another
Redhat one.

Regards,
Simon


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