[PATCH v4 0/7] smbios: Deal with tables beyond 4GB
Ilias Apalodimas
ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org
Wed Dec 27 12:16:17 CET 2023
Hi Simon,
Thanks this looks good
On Wed, 27 Dec 2023 at 09:40, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> When the malloc() region extends beyond 4GB on ARM we may end up with
> an SMBIOS table in that region.
>
> Add support for writing an SMBIOS3 table, which supports a 64-bit
> address.
>
> Note that this problem does not happen on x86 since it requires the
> tables to be placed just below 1MB in memory, unless
> CONFIG_BLOBLIST_TABLES is enabled.
>
>
> Changes in v4:
> - Bring in this patch from Heinrich's series
> - Check the start of the table rather than the end
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Check the end of the table rather than the start.
> - Add a new patch to correct gd_smbios_start()
> - Add a note about why unmap_system() is called
>
> Heinrich Schuchardt (1):
> smbios: SMBIOS 3.0 (64-bit) Entry Point structure
>
> Simon Glass (6):
> smbios: Refactor 32-bit code into an else statement
> smbios: Move the rest of the SMBIOS2 code
> smbios: Use SMBIOS 3.0 to support an address above 4GB
> smbios: Correct gd_smbios_start()
> efi: Use the correct GUID for the SMBIOS table
> smbios: Require the caller to align the SMBIOS table
>
> include/asm-generic/global_data.h | 2 +-
> include/efi_api.h | 4 ++
> include/smbios.h | 37 ++++++++++++--
> lib/efi_loader/efi_smbios.c | 14 +++--
> lib/smbios.c | 85 +++++++++++++++++++------------
> 5 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>
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Tested-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org>
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