[PATCH v5 04/12] smbios: Use SMBIOS 3.0 to support an address above 4GB

[Simon Glass]

Hi Heinrich,

On Mon, Jan 1, 2024 at 10:34 AM Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On 12/31/23 16:25, Simon Glass wrote:
> > When the SMBIOS table is written to an address above 4GB a 32-bit table
> > address is not large enough.
> >
> > Use an SMBIOS3 table in that case.
> >
> > Note that we cannot use efi_allocate_pages() since this function has
> > nothing to do with EFI. There is no equivalent function to allocate
> > memory below 4GB in U-Boot. One solution would be to create a separate
> > malloc() pool, or just always put the malloc() pool below 4GB.
> >
> > - Use log_debug() for warning
> > - Rebase on Heinrich's smbios.h patch
> > - Set the checksum for SMBIOS3
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > ---
> >
> > (no changes since v4)
> >
> > Changes in v4:
> > - Check the start of the table rather than the end
> >
> > Changes in v2:
> > - Check the end of the table rather than the start.
> >
> >   include/smbios.h |  6 +++++-
> >   lib/smbios.c     | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> >   2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
Applied to u-boot-dm/next, thanks!