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Re: [PATCH] Add a module for retrieving SMBIOS information


From: David Michael
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a module for retrieving SMBIOS information
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 13:53:40 -0500

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Leif Lindholm <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 05:01:32PM -0500, David Michael wrote:
>> >> There was some interest on help-grub about supporting SMBIOS access
>> >> upstream.  I've updated the module I wrote a while ago to work with
>> >> current GRUB and added documentation.  Is this acceptable to be applied?
>> >> Are there any comments or suggestions for improvement?
>> >
>> > Any particular reason for making it x86-only?
>> > Since the code correctly does _not_ scan memory for the tables on any
>> > EFI system, this should work without modification on arm/arm64 too.
>>
>> It's marked as x86-only mostly because that's all I've tried, and I
>> didn't want to accidentally break builds for other configurations.  I
>> don't have any ARM hardware for testing the module.  Maybe an emulator
>> would suffice; I'll have to look into it.
>>
>> Are you able to try the module with an ARM system?  I'd be happy to
>> update the patch with your suggested changes if it works.
>
> I have a software model with some dummy tables, and with one
> modification (below - one I think will be necessary for amd64 too),
> the command seems to be functional.

Okay, thanks, I'll send an updated patch in the near future with your
suggested changes.

> I'm hoping we'll get around to implementing SMBIOS support for arm64
> QEMU shortly, so that these things will be easier for others to
> test. Or if you'd be interested, I could show you how to test it on
> the ARM Foundation Model.

I can check out the ARM Foundation Model until QEMU is ready.  I
haven't used it before, so if you've already got a working setup, I'd
be interested in seeing your testing instructions to get started.

Thanks.

David



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