[PATCHv4] arm64: dmi: Add SMBIOS/DMI support

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Oct 6 03:40:25 PDT 2014


On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 04:46:43PM +0100, Yi Li wrote:
> 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>
> ---
> 
> As Ard's suggestion, tested the patch on the kernel with/without EFI
> support to boot. The bootlog and dmidecode/lshw works fine.
> I will send the log with another email.

Thanks but it's late for 3.18. We'll probably queue it later for 3.19
(hopefully it's ok this time ;)).

-- 
Catalin



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