[PATCH 0/2 v3] Provide a fallback to smbios tables

[Ilias Apalodimas]

Hi Heinrich,

On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 at 10:11, Heinrich Schuchardt
<heinrich.schuchardt at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On 12/7/23 10:18, Ilias Apalodimas wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is v3 of the smbios series [0].
> > v3 has a bigger cleanup in the existing smbios code, folding in
> > smbios_add_string() that were sprinkled around  to smbios_add_prop().
> >
> > The latter is now the only caller of smbios_add_string().
> >
> > Simon asked for a selftest which makes sense, but we plan to refactor some
> > of the smbios creation code anyway. I am happy to add tests once we do that
> >
> > I've also removed the r-b tags from Peter and Tom, since some of the code
> > they reviewed changed.
>
> QEMU provides SMBIOS tables for x86, ARM, and Longsoon. I have just sent
> a patch QEMU upstream to add the missing SMBIOS support on RISC-V.
>
> Like we do for ACPI on QEMU we should not rely on the device-tree to
> build U-Boot specific SMBIOS tables but we should forward what QEMU
> provides.
>
> This can be done after the current patch series.

Fair enough. I'll add it to my backlog

Thanks
/Ilias
>
> Best regards
>
> Heinrich