[PATCH] arm: mvebu: AC5/AC5X: Disable SMBIOS

[Stefan Roese]

On 10/13/23 05:00, Chris Packham wrote:
> The RD-AC5X doesn't make use of EFI or SMBIOS. Recently we started seeing
> boot failures such as
> 
>      WARNING: SMBIOS table_address overflow 27f60f020
>      Failed to write SMBIOS table
>      initcall failed at event 10/(unknown) (err=-22)
>      ### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###
> 
> The error is because the physical address of the RAM on the AC5X SoC is
> above the 32GiB boundary. As we don't need SMBIOS or EFI this can be
> safely disabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham at gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>

Thanks,
Stefan

> ---
> This probably should have been part of the series I sent as
> https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20231003035800.2626121-1-judge.packham@gmail.com/
> but I didn't have the RD-AC5X board at the time. There is another issue
> that's stopping the RD-AC5X board from booting with current master but
> with the suspect commit reverted you can see the same SMBIOS issue I was
> seeing on the x240.
> 
>   configs/mvebu_ac5_rd_defconfig | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/configs/mvebu_ac5_rd_defconfig b/configs/mvebu_ac5_rd_defconfig
> index dbf1e3136cdf..e8fa22b648be 100644
> --- a/configs/mvebu_ac5_rd_defconfig
> +++ b/configs/mvebu_ac5_rd_defconfig
> @@ -85,3 +85,4 @@ CONFIG_USB_ETHER_ASIX88179=y
>   CONFIG_USB_ETHER_MCS7830=y
>   CONFIG_USB_ETHER_RTL8152=y
>   CONFIG_USB_ETHER_SMSC95XX=y
> +# CONFIG_SMBIOS is not set

Viele Grüße,
Stefan Roese

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