[PATCH resend v2] arm64: dmi: Add SMBIOS/DMI support

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Mon Jul 14 06:36:44 PDT 2014


On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:46:50PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> From: Yi Li <yi.li at 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 at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> ---
> Changes since previous version:
> - changed double inclusion guard to arm64 flavour
> - use kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL) as GFP_ATOMIC is not needed
> - do a sanity check on the size of the requested mapping

Technically, this patch looks fine to me:

  Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>

It would be good if somebody with a relevant platform could confirm that
it works/is useful though.

Will



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