Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: EFI-support for SMBIOS driver | Date | Sat, 5 Jun 2004 03:09:36 +0200 |
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It seems SMBIOS driver is gone.
http://linus.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@40b6702axansvQIxOVjTSIp7_DVoHA
On Saturday 05 of June 2004 02:52, David Mosberger wrote: > Michael, > > The patch below adds EFI support to the SMBIOS driver. Since EFI > already knows the address of the SMBIOS, this avoids having to scan > for the table. It also enables use of the driver on ia64 machines. > The patch also adds code to handle the case where the SMBIOS table > resides in memory, which is the case at least for HP's zx1-based ia64 > machines. If CONFIG_EFI is off, the resulting code should be > unchanged (except for replacing a readb() loop into a > memcpy_fromio()). > > One observation: I believe find_table_max_address() is missing some > readb() calls (it's dereferencing ioremap'pped addresses directly). I > didn't try to fix that since I wasn't sure why it wasn't done in the > first place. > > Do you have a test-program that's using /sys/firmware/smbios? > > If the patch looks OK, please apply. > > Thanks, > > --david
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