Hi Alexander, On 9 August 2016 at 00:48, Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote: > > >> Am 08.08.2016 um 23:44 schrieb Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org>: >> >> Hi Alexander, >> >>> On 8 August 2016 at 08:06, Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote: >>> We generate a few tables on x86 today that really can be used on ARM just >>> the same. One such example is the SMBIOS table, which people use with tools >>> like "dmidecode" to identify which hardware they are running on. >>> >>> We're slowly growing needs to collect serial numbers from various devices >>> on ARM and SMBIOS seems the natural choice. So this patch set moves the >>> current SMBIOS generation into generic code and adds serial number exposure >>> to it. >> >> Shouldn't we use device tree? Why would an ARM device use SMBIOS? > > Mostly because SBBR dictates it and every ARM server platform out there > provides SMBIOS tables ;). > > Also, both describe very different things. At least I have never seen things > like "The chassy of this server has 2 power connectors and is blue" in device > tree.
So there is no DT binding for this information? Does this mean that U-Boot on ARM needs to pass information through just 'sitting in RAM somewhere' like x86? Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
