Re: [Qemu-devel] [ARM SMBIOS V5 PATCH 0/2]SMBIOS Support for ARM

[Peter Maydell]

On 26 August 2015 at 20:04, Wei Huang <address@hidden> 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