[PATCH] libretech-cc: Populate SMBIOS information

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Tue Nov 21 14:15:51 CET 2023


On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 10:18:04AM +0100, Neil Armstrong wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On 20/11/2023 21:16, Tom Rini wrote:
> > Enable CONFIG_SYSINFO_SMBIOS and populate the nodes so that Linux can
> > eventually display this information
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> > ---
> > Posting this as this was the easiest platform for me to test some SMBIOS
> > related patches on and I needed to populate the nodes so I could check
> > things in dmidecode once Linux was up.
> 
> Sorry to be late a the party, but can't this be dynamically found from DT's compatible & model ?
> Since I'll probably need to add this to all boards, it seems like a duplicate of what's already in the DT.

Part of the "fun" as to why we have the binding here is that while we
could use the top-level model property, there's not a corresponding one
for manufacturer. I'm fine ignoring the patch I posted here and having a
longer discussion about populating SMBIOS more usefully, globally, as I
think has been suggested a time or two.

-- 
Tom
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 659 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/attachments/20231121/3367e676/attachment.sig>


More information about the U-Boot mailing list