From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: dmi: Add SMBIOS/DMI support
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 17:47:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140919164734.GK20773@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKv+Gu8+qmpDpAyE3DkHihMmfCf7pf7EpnaMY_SrPFNn2yGLBQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 11:14:24PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 31 July 2014 06:01, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 01:48:36PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >> On 31 July 2014 14:47, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
> >> > From: Yi Li <yi.li@linaro.org>
> >> >
> >> > 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 <yi.li@linaro.org>
> >> > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> >> > ---
> >> >
> >> > 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 @Will; this superseded the patch that is already queued up in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.
> >
>
> Hi Will,
>
> Are you ok to take this patch now, for 3.18? Surely, we could get it
> tested today or tomorrow if you would still like do it yourself? Yi
> has tested it on a recent RC so we could ask him to demonstrate if for
> us.
Any chance you could resend the fixed patch, please? Catalin's dealing with
the 3.18 tree, so he should be able to apply it then.
Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-19 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-31 12:47 [PATCH] arm64: dmi: Add SMBIOS/DMI support Ard Biesheuvel
2014-07-31 12:48 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-07-31 13:01 ` Will Deacon
2014-09-17 22:14 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-09-19 16:47 ` Will Deacon [this message]
[not found] ` <53DA509A.8070304@linaro.org>
2014-07-31 14:26 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-07-31 15:51 ` Yi Li
2014-07-31 15:53 ` Will Deacon
2014-07-31 16:15 ` Leif Lindholm
2014-07-31 18:44 ` Ard Biesheuvel
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