Hi Heinrich, On Tue, 24 Oct 2023 at 18:22, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.g...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > > Am 25. Oktober 2023 01:31:19 MESZ schrieb Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org>: > >U-Boot typically sets up its malloc() pool near the top of memory. On > >ARM64 systems this can result in an SMBIOS table above 4GB which is > >not supported by SMBIOSv2. > > > >Work around this problem by providing a new option to choose an address > >below 4GB (but as high as possible), if needed. > > You must not overwrite memory controlled by the EFI subsystem without calling > its allocator. We should provide SMBIOS 3. SMBIOS 2 is only a fallback for > outdated tools.
That is not my intention and I don't believe this code does that. EFI is not running at this point, is it? The bit I am confused about is that we don't support SMBIOS3 in U-Boot. I am trying to fix an introduced bug... Regards, Simon
