Re: [PATCH] libretech-cc: Populate SMBIOS information

[Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>]

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On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 10:18:04AM +0100, Neil Armstrong wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On 20/11/2023 21:16, Tom Rini wrote:
> > Enable CONFIG_SYSINFO_SMBIOS and populate the nodes so that Linux can
> > eventually display this information
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
> > ---
> > Posting this as this was the easiest platform for me to test some SMBIOS
> > related patches on and I needed to populate the nodes so I could check
> > things in dmidecode once Linux was up.
> 
> Sorry to be late a the party, but can't this be dynamically found from DT's compatible & model ?
> Since I'll probably need to add this to all boards, it seems like a duplicate of what's already in the DT.

Part of the "fun" as to why we have the binding here is that while we
could use the top-level model property, there's not a corresponding one
for manufacturer. I'm fine ignoring the patch I posted here and having a
longer discussion about populating SMBIOS more usefully, globally, as I
think has been suggested a time or two.

-- 
Tom

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