[PATCH v3] arm64: dmi: Add SMBIOS/DMI support

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Sep 22 03:09:12 PDT 2014


On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 12:03:01AM +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.
> 
> This patch adds the call to dmi_scan_machine() to arm64_enter_virtual_mode(),
> as that is the point where the EFI Configuration Tables are registered as
> being available. It needs to be in an early_initcall anyway as dmi_id_init(),
> which is an arch_initcall itself, depends on dmi_scan_machine() having been
> called already.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yi Li <yi.li at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>

Merged (until the next revert ;)). Thanks.

-- 
Catalin



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