From: jcm@redhat.com (Jon Masters)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCHv4] arm64: dmi: Add SMBIOS/DMI support
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 11:36:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54BA8F84.1010507@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150117121247.GL3827@bivouac.eciton.net>
On 01/17/2015 07:12 AM, Leif Lindholm wrote:
>> So. If I wanted this available prior to early_initcall time, would it be
>> reasonable to follow e.g. x86 and move this early in the boot? I'm not
>> necessarily going to ask to upstream such a change (since I expect to be
>> able to solve the underlying problem I am looking to address in a
>> different fashion soon), but first want to know if it would be
>> reasonable to ask to do that anyway.
>
> My suggestion would be to not try to over-engineer a patch not going
> upstream. Move the call before smp_prepare_cpus() in init/main.c.
>
> Or, if you can be fairly certain your SMBIOS table is covered by the
> linear mapping, move the call to setup_arch().
Note: actually dmi_early_remap is defined sufficiently on AArch64 today
to do the right thing creating a mapping or reusing the linear one.
Jon.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-17 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-04 15:46 [PATCHv4] arm64: dmi: Add SMBIOS/DMI support Yi Li
2014-10-06 10:40 ` Catalin Marinas
2015-01-17 5:57 ` Jon Masters
2015-01-17 12:12 ` Leif Lindholm
2015-01-17 15:09 ` Jon Masters
2015-01-19 1:27 ` 答复: " liyi 00215672
2015-01-19 3:30 ` Jon Masters
2015-01-19 3:35 ` Jon Masters
2015-01-17 16:36 ` Jon Masters [this message]
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