> 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. Alex _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
