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

Leif Lindholm leif.lindholm at linaro.org
Thu Jul 31 09:15:28 PDT 2014


On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 04:53:38PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > >>      The patch works well on FVP model, and here are the boot log and
> > >> dmidecode+lshw result:
> > >>
> > > Thanks Yi!
> > >
> > > Can we help Will out if he wants to test this himself?
> >      @Will: which platform do you have on hand?  I am using FVP model 
> > for testing.
> >      First, you need to merge SMBIOS support into UEFI.
> >      Then, compile and install the dmidecode(open source) on the linux 
> > ,and run it.
> 
> I've got some stuff from Leif for testing this, but what I'm really after is
> something that would have spotted this problem. Are there any compliance
> tests, for example?

The patch as previously submitted (and accepted) was functional on all
platforms it has been tested on. It is technically not compliant with
the UEFI specification, but it works with the images we had.
The worst-case failure would have been the lookup function returning
NULL and the SMBIOS tables being unavailable even though they existed.

What you are asking for would be a test for UEFI, not for the kernel.
(And this one might be useful to add to the fwts if it's not already
part of it.)

/
    Leif



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