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SubjectRe: [External] Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] riscv: obtain SMBIOS entry from FFI.
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.
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