[PATCH v5 00/14] Introduce support for Dell SMBIOS over WMI

2017-10-06 Thread Mario Limonciello
The existing way that the dell-smbios helper module and associated other drivers (dell-laptop, dell-wmi) communicate with the platform really isn't secure. It requires creating a buffer in physical DMA32 memory space and passing that to the platform via SMM. Since the platform got a physical

[PATCH v5 00/14] Introduce support for Dell SMBIOS over WMI

2017-10-06 Thread Mario Limonciello
The existing way that the dell-smbios helper module and associated other drivers (dell-laptop, dell-wmi) communicate with the platform really isn't secure. It requires creating a buffer in physical DMA32 memory space and passing that to the platform via SMM. Since the platform got a physical