Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 04:39:43 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@FreeBSD.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r307326 - head/sys/boot/efi/loader Message-ID: <20170627043943.GA55141@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201610141710.u9EHArlL089412@repo.freebsd.org> References: <201610141710.u9EHArlL089412@repo.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 05:10:53PM +0000, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > New Revision: 307326 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/307326 > > Log: > In UEFI mode expose the SMBIOS anchor base address via kenv so the kernel > etc. can find out where the SMBIOS entry point is located. In pure > UEFI mode the BIOS is not mapped into the standard address space so the > SMBIOS table might not appear between 0xf0000 and 0xfffff. The > UEFI environment can report this the location of the anchor. If it is > reported then expose it as hint.smbios.0.mem. [...] > > Linux exposes this information via the /sys/firmware/efi/systab file > which dmidecode looks at. We should update dmidecode to do this the > FreeBSD way when we determine what that is! We just did: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/444412 (sorry it took us eight months). ./danfe
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