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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [ARM SMBIOS V5 PATCH 0/2]SMBIOS Support for ARM
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To: Wei Huang <wei@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>, Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@linaro.org>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, "Gabriel L. Somlo" <somlo@cmu.edu>, Shannon Zhao <zhaoshenglong@huawei.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>, Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org>, Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>, jdelvare@suse.de, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>

On 26 August 2015 at 20:04, Wei Huang <wei@redhat.com> wrote:
> SMBIOS tables present userful system hardware info to management
> applications, such as DMI tools. Even though SMBIOS was originally
> developed for Intel x86, it has been extended to both Itanium and
> ARM (32bit & 64bit). More and more ARM server releases, such as
> RHEL Server for ARM, start to integrate support for SMBIOS.
>
> This patchset is intendted to provid SMBIOS tables for ARM mach-virt
> machine. The SMBIOS tables are created and stored in fw_cfg, relying on
> OVMF (AAVMF) to parse/present SMBIOS entry.
>
> Given that refractoring patches have been accepted by upstream. This new
> version (V5) integrates SMBIOS 3.0 support for ARM mach-virt. I have
> tested this version using a customized AAVMF created by Laszlo, who
> has submitted his patches to OVMF mailing list. Compatibility tests
> for x86 VMs (Linux & Windows) also passed.

Thanks, applied to target-arm.next.

-- PMM