From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-lf0-x229.google.com (mail-lf0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c07::229]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ml01.01.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0D52081D65 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2016 02:08:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-lf0-x229.google.com with SMTP id c13so58832295lfg.0 for ; Fri, 04 Nov 2016 02:08:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linaro.org; s=google; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=bzWD80VjAh5H7LyA3XZBMwy0R/+n34mI+qTfklVcs8o=; b=a3JckbsmrsQoJ2O4uT/Evckf2Vjxo4e9fEq+GAzq0oaw/Hhuw0urTkhbUEEnLooXex EQwBSXVL5KwIRDDYthbEiTKAowMJjB3K7+FNm+ZeHs6ftRohnTQHRlU+j8F0AiCeSZcP 0Hh8Zt0TmrRi0L6zDrEgYDLWUTa4Hn/vGq85Y= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=bzWD80VjAh5H7LyA3XZBMwy0R/+n34mI+qTfklVcs8o=; b=dHX8HqQGJthLpziSI5VR1DwKCKwHMtx+Xv87L2rf5UuGzueoTVjQLW4Fat2ATpD+5g ms2d1QEEQHqUJjrmFq/eMFEpuKmlCgGeDtEe0it3eV5U5WGd/KSWLQ/92bAYj5sid+xJ xzbiZyrDt/1aUzEVkauc0wElO2fhacSjgcpJiX3pyK2gM3xtUryYwYBXMp7sax+KO6Xq zYnEJp6oYfYp317XjWbgI9w5HAYsaZp14PSzIKiMJoUtWdsHUR+AXRB2w4B3WG6UZ/TD 4luHC9cznR9ooVNqei2MGIoZ1AACRdRwh8I1u0yC8o+UwDNG3wjr7beW6t3sjXCt4Zqb q6Xw== X-Gm-Message-State: ABUngveZBcUsR64/xH6KFMnbHmyrtqOZwLnpJrGJ0wUtZ3I9fl8FmGXyTqjDC8PbNu7XfToIqF524+CITzBQZUW9 X-Received: by 10.25.209.136 with SMTP id i130mr7148777lfg.1.1478250480139; Fri, 04 Nov 2016 02:08:00 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.25.17.209 with HTTP; Fri, 4 Nov 2016 02:07:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Ryan Harkin Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 09:07:59 +0000 Message-ID: To: Shaveta Leekha Cc: "linaro-uefi@lists.linaro.org" , "edk2-devel@lists.01.org" , Varun Sethi Subject: Re: SMBIOS/DMI data creation X-BeenThere: edk2-devel@lists.01.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: EDK II Development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2016 09:08:00 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 4 November 2016 at 07:22, Shaveta Leekha wrote: > Hi, > > I was adding SMBIOS DMI data in UEFI for our ARM64 platform. > One patch that I referred is of ARM JUNO platform: > ArmPlatformPkg/ArmJunoPkg: Create SMBIOS/DMI data for Juno > > In it, almost all SMBIOS table entries/structures are populated statically with information. > Is it preliminary support? I think so. > can we fill most of the information like: > Memory module information > Cache related info etc by reading from registers or from system at run time instead of filling it statically? > I think that would be the nicest way to do it. Static configuration isn't ideal, IMO. But on a board like Juno, where the config isn't likely to change, I think it's acceptable to hard code it; or at least, it's better than doing nothing. > Any views? > > Thanks and Regards, > Shaveta > > _______________________________________________ > edk2-devel mailing list > edk2-devel@lists.01.org > https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel