Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Jul 2023 09:16:33 +0100 | From | Conor Dooley <> | Subject | Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] riscv: obtain SMBIOS entry from FFI. |
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On Mon, Jul 03, 2023 at 03:50:57PM +0800, 运辉崔 wrote: > On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 8:42 PM Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > Hey, > > > > On Sun, Jul 02, 2023 at 05:57:34PM +0800, Yunhui Cui wrote: > > > When we bringup with coreboot on riscv, we need to obtain > > > the entry address of SMBIOS through the FFI scheme. > > > > What do you need it for? > RISC-V will be server-oriented, and the system needs to be managed > based on SMBIOS.
Really what this commit message is missing is something that explains why you need the FFI scheme. Say along the lines of:
Coreboot on RISC-V does not support EFI, and needs to use the FDT Firmware Interface (FFI) to pass the entry address of SMBIOS to the kernel.
Cheers, Conor. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |