Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Jan 2015 13:10:11 -0800 | Subject | Re: SMBIOS/DMI data under CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM | From | Olof Johansson <> |
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Hi,
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi Catalin, all, > > I would like to ensure that the SMBIOS data provided by firmware is > always readable from userspace on AArch64, through /dev/mem.
Seems like this would be a good opportunity for cleanup and fixing userspace to use /sys/firmware/dmi interfaces instead of having to go poking through /dev/mem. That way they don't have to be privileged process any more and is a general security benefit for everybody.
-Olof
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