[PATCH] configs: apple: Enable SMBIOS / sysinfo

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2026 at 06:49:11PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2026 11:33:51 -0600
> > From: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> > 
> > On Fri, Jan 09, 2026 at 06:20:30PM +0100, Janne Grunau wrote:
> > 
> > > Enable verbose SMBIOS table generation so that user space applications
> > > can use the SMBIOS table to provide details about the system. The
> > > desired information is chassis-type to determine whether the system is
> > > laptop.
> > > Adding the chassis-type property is proposed for the upstream device
> > > trees in the Linux kernel in [1].
> > > 
> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/asahi/20260109-apple-dt-usb-c-atc-dwc3-v1-0-ce0e92c1a016@jannau.net/ [1]
> > > Signed-off-by: Janne Grunau <j at jannau.net>
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> > 
> > > ---
> > > I do not plan to update u-boot's in-tree device trees. The Linux device
> > > trees have almost reached feature parity. The main missing features are
> > > the USB Type-C ports (on track for next merge window) and the laptop
> > > keyboards. I think it makes more sense to close the feature gap and
> > > switch to upstream device trees instead of adding to the in-tree device
> > > trees.
> > 
> > This sounds like a good plan to me, thanks!
> 
> Yes, it is probably time to remove the in-tree device trees for these
> devices.  They were never actually used in the build anyway.  Just
> added because a maintainer insisted on having them in the tree.  But
> now that we have the upstream device trees in the tree, the in-tree
> ones can go.

Note that a small challenge for today (I ran in to this as part of
fixing OF_OMIT_DTB not requiring building a dtb) is the instructions do
say to concatenate m1n1, u-boot.bin and a dtb in some cases. But taking
the upstream dtb for that instead is fine I assume.

-- 
Tom
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