[PATCH v5 08/12] smbios: Drop support for SMBIOS2 tables

[Simon Glass]

On Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 3:26 PM Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> These tables are a pain since there is no way to handle memory above
> 4GB. Use SMBIOS3 always.
>
> This should hopefully not create problems on x86 devices, since SMBIOS3
> was released seven years ago (2015).
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>

It's also worth noting here the aarch64 Server Base Boot Requirements
(SBBR) has required SMBIOS v3 since version 1.0 of the spec [1].

[1] https://documentation-service.arm.com/static/5fb7e5adca04df4095c1d64d

> ---
>
> Changes in v5:
> - Add new patch to drop support for SMBIOS2 tables
>
>  lib/smbios.c | 76 ++++++++++++----------------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
>
Applied to u-boot-dm/next, thanks!