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

[Mario Limonciello]

On 12/17/25 3:21 PM, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 03:09:33PM -0600, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Yes, right. Sorry, I mixed this up with the debugfs patch.
>
> We need to save it here so the init code can find it.
>
> But why do we need a debugfs entry for it?

Ah.  That one I don't feel strongly about.

I used it when I was getting the series working and it felt like a waste 
to toss.