On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 at 11:10, adriana adriana@arista.com wrote:
Some bootloaders like U-boot, particularly for the ARM architecture, provide SMBIOS/DMI tables at a specific memory address. However, these systems often do not boot using a full UEFI environment, which means the kernel's standard EFI DMI scanner cannot find these tables.
This series adds support for the kernel to find these tables by reading the associated property from the Device Tree /chosen node. The bootloader can specify the physical addresses using the property "linux,smbios3-entrypoint".
The first patch introduces the device tree binding documentation for this new ABI, and the second patch implements the driver logic in dmi_scan.c.
Changes in v4:
- Renamed linux,smbios3-table.yaml file, removed mention of ARM/ARM64 (Patch 1/2).
- Drop the second definition of dmi_scan_from_dt() and fold checking for CONFIG_OF (Patch 2/2).
- Drop unnecessary goto on the success case (Patch 2/2).
- Replace magic number for entrypoint size with SMBIOS3_ENTRY_POINT_SIZE definition (Patch 2/2).
Changes in v3:
- Removed linux,smbios-table property, only keep the SMBIOSv3 property (Patch 1/2).
- Search DT for linux,smbios3-table only, removed the code searching for the previous property (Patch 2/2).
Changes in v2:
- Add missing Device Tree binding documentation (Patch 1/2).
- Split the original patch into a 2-part series (binding + driver).
- (No functional changes to the driver code in patch 2/2).
adriana (2): dt-bindings: firmware: Add binding for SMBIOS /chosen properties drivers: firmware: dmi_scan: Add support for reading SMBIOS from DT
For the series,
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org
I can take the second patch, but bindings need to go in separately IIRC.
Rob?
.../firmware/linux,smbios3-entrypoint.yaml | 25 +++++++++ drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 79 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/linux,smbios3-entrypoint.yaml
-- 2.51.0
On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 at 12:17, Ard Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org wrote:
On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 at 11:10, adriana adriana@arista.com wrote:
Some bootloaders like U-boot, particularly for the ARM architecture, provide SMBIOS/DMI tables at a specific memory address. However, these systems often do not boot using a full UEFI environment, which means the kernel's standard EFI DMI scanner cannot find these tables.
This series adds support for the kernel to find these tables by reading the associated property from the Device Tree /chosen node. The bootloader can specify the physical addresses using the property "linux,smbios3-entrypoint".
The first patch introduces the device tree binding documentation for this new ABI, and the second patch implements the driver logic in dmi_scan.c.
Changes in v4:
- Renamed linux,smbios3-table.yaml file, removed mention of ARM/ARM64 (Patch 1/2).
- Drop the second definition of dmi_scan_from_dt() and fold checking for CONFIG_OF (Patch 2/2).
- Drop unnecessary goto on the success case (Patch 2/2).
- Replace magic number for entrypoint size with SMBIOS3_ENTRY_POINT_SIZE definition (Patch 2/2).
Changes in v3:
- Removed linux,smbios-table property, only keep the SMBIOSv3 property (Patch 1/2).
- Search DT for linux,smbios3-table only, removed the code searching for the previous property (Patch 2/2).
Changes in v2:
- Add missing Device Tree binding documentation (Patch 1/2).
- Split the original patch into a 2-part series (binding + driver).
- (No functional changes to the driver code in patch 2/2).
adriana (2): dt-bindings: firmware: Add binding for SMBIOS /chosen properties drivers: firmware: dmi_scan: Add support for reading SMBIOS from DT
For the series,
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org
I can take the second patch, but bindings need to go in separately IIRC.
Rob?
Feel free to add Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org
Cheers /Ilias
.../firmware/linux,smbios3-entrypoint.yaml | 25 +++++++++ drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 79 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/firmware/linux,smbios3-entrypoint.yaml
-- 2.51.0
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