On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 03:48:33PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Version 3.0 of the DTMF SMBIOS reference spec defines a new entry point
> type that supports a 64-bit address for the SMBIOS structure table. This
> is needed by platforms whose system RAM resides above the 4 GB physical
> address boundary, such as upcoming 64-bit ARM platforms.
>
> This is a preliminary RFC implementation, as there is no definition available
> yet for SMBIOS3_TABLE_GUID, which the (currently still in draft) SMBIOS v3.0
> spec refers to.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
> ---
> goto out;
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> index 8590099ac148..9035c1b74d58 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ struct efi __read_mostly efi = {
> .acpi = EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR,
> .acpi20 = EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR,
> .smbios = EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR,
> + .smbios3 = EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR,
Is there any particular need to add a separate pointer for v3?
In both cases, the pointer is a physical address stored as an unsigned
long.
/
Leif
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