From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:36:44 +0100 Subject: [PATCH resend v2] arm64: dmi: Add SMBIOS/DMI support In-Reply-To: <1405079210-30044-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> References: <1405079210-30044-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Message-ID: <20140714133644.GE1779@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:46:50PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > From: Yi Li > > SMbios is important for server hardware vendors. It implements a spec for > providing descriptive information about the platform. Things like serial > numbers, physical layout of the ports, build configuration data, and the like. > > This has been tested by dmidecode and lshw tools. > > Signed-off-by: Yi Li > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel > --- > Changes since previous version: > - changed double inclusion guard to arm64 flavour > - use kzalloc(GFP_KERNEL) as GFP_ATOMIC is not needed > - do a sanity check on the size of the requested mapping Technically, this patch looks fine to me: Reviewed-by: Will Deacon It would be good if somebody with a relevant platform could confirm that it works/is useful though. Will