Hi Simon, On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 5:44 AM, Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> wrote: > 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? >
I believe the reason of using SMBIOS on ARM is with U-Boot's bootefi support. https://wiki.linaro.org/ARM/UEFI/SMBIOS Regards, Bin _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
