Am 18. August 2023 02:26:51 MESZ schrieb Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org:
When booted from coreboot, U-Boot does not build the SMBIOS tables, but it should still pass them on to the OS. Add a new option which indicates whether SMBIOS tables are present, however they were built.
Flip the ordering so that the dependency is listed first, which is less confusing.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org
Changes in v2:
- Add new patch
lib/Kconfig | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig index a9dca5f52b5a..b7bbf3f81c56 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig +++ b/lib/Kconfig @@ -984,8 +984,9 @@ config BLOBLIST_TABLES
config GENERATE_SMBIOS_TABLE bool "Generate an SMBIOS (System Management BIOS) table"
- default y depends on X86 || EFI_LOADER
- default y
- imply SMBIOS
Is there any use case for GENERATE_SMBIOD_TABLE=y and SMBIOS=n? I would have expected 'depends on SMBIOS' here.
help The System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) specification addresses how motherboard and system vendors present management information about @@ -1054,6 +1055,15 @@ config SPL_OID_REGISTRY unambiguous persistent name (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_identifier). Enable fast lookup object identifier registry in the SPL.
+config SMBIOS
- bool "SMBIOS support"
- depends on X86
We need SMBIOS tables on all EFI architectures.
- default y
- help
Indicates that this platform can create System Management BIOS
This is very confusing: create and generate are just synonyms. Given this description I would not know what is the difference between the symbols.
Best regards
Heinrich
(SMBIOS) tables. These provide various pieces of information aboutthe board, such as the manufacturer and the model name.config SMBIOS_PARSER bool "SMBIOS parser" help