-----Original Message----- > From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Doug Ambrisko > <[email protected]> > Date: 2016-10-14, Friday at 10:27 > To: Warner Losh <[email protected]> > Cc: Doug Ambrisko <[email protected]>, src-committers > <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" > <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: svn commit: r307326 - head/sys/boot/efi/loader > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 11:16:02AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > | Love the functionality, but don't like using the 'hint' namespace for > | this. Can we change it now before too many things depend on it? We had > | similar issues in ACPI and moved it to the 'acpi' space. Can we move > | this to the 'smbios' space please? > | > | The reason is that 'hint' is special and sometimes filtered out, so it > | is a poor choice to export data from the boot loader to the kernel. > > The reason I picked hint was it could be put /boot/device.hints > to make it work as well and that it was a hint. Other standards in the > future might use other methods. Looking back over the email I had > with John he had suggested hint.smbios.0.anchor to make this look > different. This code had been hanging around for so long I forgot > about that and we were using hint.smbios.0.mem in our shipping code base. > > However, I hope that nothing would use this except for smbios(4) and > for people to make smbios(4) useful for this info.
Doug's looking at me when he says that. :-) We talked about this last night at BAFUG; right now, even if smbios(4) is able to find the SMBIOS info -- it currently only looks at the aforementioned 0xf0000 - 0xfffff range, so it can't find it on UEFI -- smbios(4) doesn't actually provide any interface for that information. Doug and I have talked about making smbios(4) useful, by parsing the data and providing KPIs and APIs, for years now; I think I'll *finally* have the time and motivation to do so "soon". -Ravi (rpokala@) > Thanks, > > Doug A. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
