Some bootloaders like U-boot, particularly for the ARM architecture,
provide SMBIOS/DMI tables at a specific memory address. However, these
systems often do not boot using a full UEFI environment, which means the
kernel's standard EFI DMI scanner cannot find these tables.

This series adds support for the kernel to find these tables by
reading the associated property from the Device Tree /chosen node. The
bootloader can specify the physical addresses using the property
"smbios3-entrypoint".

This patch implements the driver logic in dmi_scan.c.

Changes in v5:
  - Removed linux,smbios3-entrypoint.yaml file and the first patch.
  - Renamed property to "smbios3-entrypoint".

Changes in v4:
  - Renamed linux,smbios3-table.yaml file, removed mention of ARM/ARM64
    (Patch 1/2).
  - Drop the second definition of dmi_scan_from_dt() and fold checking
    for CONFIG_OF (Patch 2/2).
  - Drop unnecessary goto on the success case (Patch 2/2).
  - Replace magic number for entrypoint size with SMBIOS3_ENTRY_POINT_SIZE
    definition (Patch 2/2).

Changes in v3:
  - Removed linux,smbios-table property, only keep the SMBIOSv3 property
    (Patch 1/2).
  - Search DT for linux,smbios3-table only, removed the code searching
    for the previous property (Patch 2/2).

Changes in v2:
  - Add missing Device Tree binding documentation (Patch 1/2).
  - Split the original patch into a 2-part series (binding + driver).
  - (No functional changes to the driver code in patch 2/2).

adriana (1):
  drivers: firmware: dmi_scan: Add support for reading SMBIOS from DT

 drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+)

-- 
2.51.0

On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 04:59:16AM -0700, adriana wrote:
> Some bootloaders like U-boot, particularly for the ARM architecture,
> provide SMBIOS/DMI tables at a specific memory address. However, these
> systems often do not boot using a full UEFI environment, which means the
> kernel's standard EFI DMI scanner cannot find these tables.
> 
> This series adds support for the kernel to find these tables by
> reading the associated property from the Device Tree /chosen node. The
> bootloader can specify the physical addresses using the property
> "smbios3-entrypoint".
> 
> This patch implements the driver logic in dmi_scan.c.
> 
> Changes in v5:
>   - Removed linux,smbios3-entrypoint.yaml file and the first patch.
>   - Renamed property to "smbios3-entrypoint".

Please stop sending new versions as a reply to the old one.

> 
> Changes in v4:
>   - Renamed linux,smbios3-table.yaml file, removed mention of ARM/ARM64
>     (Patch 1/2).
>   - Drop the second definition of dmi_scan_from_dt() and fold checking
>     for CONFIG_OF (Patch 2/2).
>   - Drop unnecessary goto on the success case (Patch 2/2).
>   - Replace magic number for entrypoint size with SMBIOS3_ENTRY_POINT_SIZE
>     definition (Patch 2/2).
> 
> Changes in v3:
>   - Removed linux,smbios-table property, only keep the SMBIOSv3 property
>     (Patch 1/2).
>   - Search DT for linux,smbios3-table only, removed the code searching
>     for the previous property (Patch 2/2).
> 
> Changes in v2:
>   - Add missing Device Tree binding documentation (Patch 1/2).
>   - Split the original patch into a 2-part series (binding + driver).
>   - (No functional changes to the driver code in patch 2/2).
> 
> adriana (1):
>   drivers: firmware: dmi_scan: Add support for reading SMBIOS from DT
> 
>  drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 54 insertions(+)
> 
> -- 
> 2.51.0
> 
>