From: Mario Limonciello <superm1@kernel.org>
To: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>
Cc: "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)"
<x86@kernel.org>, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] firmware: dmi: Read additional information when decoding DMI table
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:09:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <78dbc0eb-37a3-468d-b43e-f5a5a06ad8fe@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251217210352.GA1263950@yaz-khff2.amd.com>
On 12/17/25 3:03 PM, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 06:33:50AM -0600, Mario Limonciello (AMD) wrote:
>> Type 40 entries (Additional information) are summarized in section
>> 7.41 as part of the SMBIOS specification. Save these entries when
>> decoding the DMI tables.
>>
>
> Why can't an interested user just use dmidecode?
>
> Thanks,
> Yazen
They could. The reason for doing it in this series is the same reason
for the one that we did the S5 bit.
It shows up in the logs, you can tie regressions to the AGESA version at
specifically at the time of the failure if they've done BIOS updates
since then.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-17 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-16 12:33 [PATCH v2 0/7] Parse SMBIOS additional entries Mario Limonciello (AMD)
2025-12-16 12:33 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] firmware: dmi: Correct an indexing error in dmi.h Mario Limonciello (AMD)
2025-12-22 16:48 ` Jean Delvare
2025-12-16 12:33 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] firmware: dmi: Adjust dmi_decode() to use enums Mario Limonciello (AMD)
2025-12-22 16:50 ` Jean Delvare
2025-12-16 12:33 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] firmware: dmi: Read additional information when decoding DMI table Mario Limonciello (AMD)
2025-12-17 21:03 ` Yazen Ghannam
2025-12-17 21:09 ` Mario Limonciello [this message]
2025-12-17 21:21 ` Yazen Ghannam
2025-12-17 21:23 ` Mario Limonciello
2025-12-18 15:43 ` Yazen Ghannam
2025-12-22 16:59 ` Jean Delvare
2025-12-22 17:51 ` Jean Delvare
2025-12-22 21:31 ` Jean DELVARE
2025-12-16 12:33 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] firmware: dmi: Add debugfs for additional information entries Mario Limonciello (AMD)
2025-12-16 12:33 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] firmware: dmi: Add missing DMI entry types Mario Limonciello (AMD)
2025-12-22 17:01 ` Jean Delvare
2025-12-16 12:33 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] x86/CPU/AMD: Prefix messages with x86/amd Mario Limonciello (AMD)
2025-12-17 21:10 ` Yazen Ghannam
2025-12-16 12:33 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] x86/CPU/AMD: Output the AGESA version to the logs Mario Limonciello (AMD)
2025-12-17 21:18 ` Yazen Ghannam
2025-12-17 21:21 ` Mario Limonciello
2025-12-18 15:47 ` Yazen Ghannam
2025-12-22 18:18 ` Jean Delvare
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