Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] firmware: dmi: Read additional information when decoding DMI table

[Mario Limonciello]

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.