From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 14:01:57 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] arm64: dmi: Add SMBIOS/DMI support In-Reply-To: References: <1406810830-6099-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Message-ID: <20140731130157.GQ26853@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 01:48:36PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On 31 July 2014 14:47, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > From: Yi Li > > > > SMbios is important for server hardware vendors. It implements a spec for > > providing descriptive information about the platform. Things like serial > > numbers, physical layout of the ports, build configuration data, and the like. > > > > This has been tested by dmidecode and lshw tools. > > > > Signed-off-by: Yi Li > > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel > > --- > > > > It turns out that efi_lookup_mapped_addr() is not appropriate after all for > > remapping the address of the SMBIOS tables. The reason is that the UEFI spec > > forbids virtual mappings being requested for configuration tables (which is not > > currently honored by Tianocore/EDK2) > > > > @Yi: could you retest yet again, please? > > @Will; this superseded the patch that is already queued up in > for-next/core, so perhaps you could drop that while we get this > tested? Reverted. I'd really appreciate help testing this stuff in future -- it was a pig getting it going on the foundation model and the whole setup felt rather contrived. Anyway, thanks for letting me know. Will