[PATCH v3 0/4] Obtain SMBIOS and ACPI entry from FFI

[Palmer Dabbelt]

On Wed, 05 Jul 2023 04:42:47 PDT (-0700), cuiyunhui at bytedance.com wrote:
> Here's version 3 of patch series.
>
> V1: The FFI (FDT FIRMWARE INTERFACE) scheme has reached a
> consensus with the Maintainers.
> Please refer to:
> https://patches.linaro.org/project/linux-acpi/patch/20230426034001.16-1-cuiyunhui@bytedance.com/

>From looking at that thread it seems that the consensus is this is a bad 
idea?  Sorry if I'm just missing something...

> Changes v1->v2:
> Adjusted the code structure, put the ACPI part under the RISC-V architecture,
> and put the general part of obtaining SMBIOS entry through FFI
> under driver/firmware/.
> Please refer to:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230703-71f67eb66a037f5c0fb825c6@orel/T/
>
> Changes v2->v3:
> According to the suggestions of maintainers, the code has been modified as follows:
> 1. Modified the commit log.
> 2. Added description of "ffitbl" subnod in dt-bindings.
> 3. Add stub function to the function
> 4. arch/riscv/ and driver/firmware/ use CONFIG_FDT_FW_INTERFACE to control
> 5. Modified the ffi_smbios_root_pointer() function logic and printing
> etc.
>
> Yunhui Cui (4):
>   riscv: obtain ACPI RSDP from devicetree
>   firmware: introduce FFI for SMBIOS entry
>   riscv: obtain SMBIOS entry from FFI
>   dt-bindings: firmware: Document ffitbl binding
>
>  .../devicetree/bindings/firmware/ffitbl.txt   | 27 ++++++
>  MAINTAINERS                                   | 13 +++
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/acpi.h                 |  9 ++
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/ffi.h                  | 14 +++
>  arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile                    |  1 +
>  arch/riscv/kernel/ffi.c                       | 40 ++++++++
>  arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c                     |  2 +
>  drivers/firmware/Kconfig                      | 11 +++
>  drivers/firmware/Makefile                     |  1 +
>  drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c                   | 97 +++++++++++--------
>  drivers/firmware/ffi.c                        | 42 ++++++++
>  include/linux/ffi.h                           | 29 ++++++
>  12 files changed, 246 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/ffitbl.txt
>  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/include/asm/ffi.h
>  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/kernel/ffi.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/ffi.c
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/ffi.h