[PATCH v5 1/2] Define the SMBIOS3 entry point structure on EFI

2016-02-20 Thread David Michael
This adds the GUID and includes it in the lsefisystab module. --- Changes since v4: To address points suggested by Andrei Borzenkov: * Dropped SMBIOS3 support for cfgtables and loadbios. grub-core/commands/efi/lsefisystab.c | 1 + include/grub/efi/api.h | 5 + 2 files changed

[PATCH v5 2/2] Add a module for retrieving SMBIOS information

2016-02-20 Thread David Michael
The following are two use cases from Rajat Jain : 1) We have a board that boots Linux and this board itself can be plugged into one of different chassis types. We need to pass different parameters to the kernel based on the "CHASSIS_TYPE" information that is passed by the bios in the DMI / SMBI