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

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 14 July 2014 15:57, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org> wrote:
> On 14 July 2014 15:36, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
>> 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>
>>

Hello Catalin,

This has been tested by Yi on FVP and Juno.
Are you ok to take this?

-- 
Ard.


>
> Thanks.
>
>> It would be good if somebody with a relevant platform could confirm that
>> it works/is useful though.
>>
>
> The usefulness has been debated here a couple of times before:
> Grant's take on it is here
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=140206407411522&w=2
>
> As to whether it works: I have asked Yi to retest this version of the
> patch with lshw and dmidecode
> @Yi: could you please share your findings here?
>