[PATCH 07/10] efi: dmi: add support for SMBIOS 3.0 UEFI configuration table

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 27 October 2014 16:26, Matt Fleming <matt at console-pimps.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Oct, at 04:21:50PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> This adds support to the UEFI side for detecting the presence of
>> a SMBIOS 3.0 64-bit entry point. This allows the actual SMBIOS
>> structure table to reside at a physical offset over 4 GB, which
>> cannot be supported by the legacy SMBIOS 32-bit entry point.
>>
>> Since the firmware can legally provide both entry points, store
>> the SMBIOS 3.0 entry point in a separate variable, and let the
>> DMI decoding layer decide which one will be used.
>>
>> Tested-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit at amd.com>
>> Acked-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm at linaro.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
>> ---
>>  drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 4 ++++
>>  include/linux/efi.h        | 6 +++++-
>>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Looks like you might also need to change driver/xen/efi.c to set
> EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR for the new table address?
>

You're quite right. Will add it in v2

-- 
Ard.