Re: [PATCH v5 08/12] smbios: Drop support for SMBIOS2 tables

On Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 3:26 PM Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org wrote:

These tables are a pain since there is no way to handle memory above 4GB. Use SMBIOS3 always.

This should hopefully not create problems on x86 devices, since SMBIOS3 was released seven years ago (2015).

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org

Reviewed-by: Peter Robinson pbrobinson@gmail.com

It's also worth noting here the aarch64 Server Base Boot Requirements (SBBR) has required SMBIOS v3 since version 1.0 of the spec [1].

[1] https://documentation-service.arm.com/static/5fb7e5adca04df4095c1d64d

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Changes in v5:

• Add new patch to drop support for SMBIOS2 tables

lib/smbios.c | 76 ++++++++++++---------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)

Applied to u-boot-dm/next, thanks!