On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 12:50:57AM -0800, Adriana Nicolae wrote: > From: adriana <[email protected]> > > The Linux kernel can discover SMBIOS tables through two primary methods: > 1. Via EFI tables, when using EFI boot; > 2. Via the 'smbios3-entrypoint' property in the /chosen node of the > device tree. > > When U-Boot boots a Linux kernel using a non-EFI command ("bootm", > "bootz", or "booti"), the kernel relies on the device tree to detect > the hardware. If SMBIOS tables are available in U-Boot, they should > be passed to the kernel via this device tree property. > > This patch modifies boot_fdt_prepare(), to inject the SMBIOSv3 table > address into the device tree if there is a table generated by U-boot. > The "board_fdt_chosen_smbios" is weak in order to leave the possibilty > for specific boards to select custom SMBIOS addresses. > > The changes in this patch are added in the context of supporting this > device tree property in linux kernel: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/10/24/1393 > > Device tree schema was updated to include the "smbios3-entrypoint" node > in pull request: https://github.com/devicetree-org/dt-schema/pull/177 > > Signed-off-by: Adriana Nicolae <[email protected]>
A small thing I had fixed up, please reset the patch author to your full name as well. A bigger problem is that this breaks the expected output of fdt_test_chosen: https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/jobs/1313270#L255 for example. -- Tom
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