[PATCH v2 2/4] cmd: provide command to display SMBIOS information

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 03:02, Heinrich Schuchardt
<heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/24/24 22:16, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 04:33:45PM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> >
> >> U-Boot can either generated an SMBIOS table or copy it from a prior boot
> >> stage, e.g. QEMU.
> >>
> >> Provide a command to display the SMBIOS information.
> >>
> >> Currently only type 1 and 2 are translated to human readable text.
> >> Other types may be added later. Currently only a hexdump and the list of
> >> strings is provided for these.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com>
> >> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> >> Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org>
> > [snip]
> >> @@ -227,6 +227,13 @@ config CMD_SBI
> >>      help
> >>        Display information about the SBI implementation.
> >>
> >> +config CMD_SMBIOS
> >> +    bool "smbios"
> >> +    depends on SMBIOS
> >> +    default y
> >> +    help
> >> +      Display the SMBIOS information.
> >> +
> >
> > So this would be enabled (today) on 888 boards and is a bit more than a
> > kilobyte. I think we can just let this be enabled as needed in
> > defconfigs?
> >
>
> As needed would be the boards where we want to run the related Python
> test. Sandbox and QEMU should be good enough?

Yes, I think for most users seeing the smbios tables is probably not
particularly useful.