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

[neil.armstrong at linaro.org]

Hi,

On 18/12/2023 16:01, Simon Glass wrote:
> 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.

SMBIOS data is translated into dmi informations in Linux, and a little
lookup in GitHub gives 6.4K files using something from /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/,
and by very commonly used tools like lshw and probably fwupd.

Neil

> 
> Regards,
> Simon