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* x86: vmware: look for DMI string in the product serial keyAlok Kataria2008-11-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: Should permit VMware detection on older platforms where the vendor is changed. Could theoretically cause a regression if some weird serial number scheme contains the string "VMware" by pure chance. Seems unlikely, especially with the mixed case. In some user configured cases, VMware may choose not to put a VMware specific DMI string, but the product serial key is always there and is VMware specific. Add a interface to check the serial key, when checking for VMware in the DMI information. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* Automatic MODULE_ALIAS() for DMI match tables.David Woodhouse2008-10-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This makes modpost handle MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(dmi, xxxx). I had to change the string pointers in the match table to char arrays, and picked a size of 79 bytes almost at random -- do we need to make it bigger than that? I was a bit concerned about the 'bloat' this introduces into the match tables, but they should all be __initdata so it shouldn't matter too much. (Actually, modpost does go through the relocations and look at most of them; it wouldn't be impossible to make it handle string pointers -- but doesn't seem to be worth the effort, since they're __initdata). Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
* x86: configurable DMI scanning codeThomas Petazzoni2008-04-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Turn CONFIG_DMI into a selectable option if EMBEDDED is defined, in order to be able to remove the DMI table scanning code if it's not needed, and then reduce the kernel code size. With CONFIG_DMI (i.e before) : text data bss dec hex filename 1076076 128656 98304 1303036 13e1fc vmlinux Without CONFIG_DMI (i.e after) : text data bss dec hex filename 1068092 126308 98304 1292704 13b9a0 vmlinux Result: text data bss dec hex filename -7984 -2348 0 -10332 -285c vmlinux The new option appears in "Processor type and features", only when CONFIG_EMBEDDED is defined. This patch is part of the Linux Tiny project, and is based on previous work done by Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* SMBIOS/DMI: add type 41 = Onboard Devices Extended InformationWim Van Sebroeck2008-02-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From version 2.6 of the SMBIOS standard, type 10 (On Board Devices Information) becomes obsolete. The reason for this is that no further fields can be added to this structure without adversely affecting existing software's ability to properly parse the data. Therefore type 41 (Onboard Devices Extended Information) was added. The structure is as follows: struct smbios_type_41 { u8 type; u8 length; u16 handle; u8 reference_designation_string; u8 device_type; /* same device type as in type 10 */ u8 device_type_instance; u16 segment_group_number; u8 bus_number; u8 device_function_number; }; For more info: http://www.dmtf.org/standards/smbios Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* dmi: Let drivers walk the DMI tableJean Delvare2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | Let drivers walk the DMI table for their own needs. Some drivers need data stored in OEM-specific DMI records for proper operation. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
* DMI: remove duplicate helper routineLen Brown2008-02-03
| | | | | | | | Use existing dmi_get_system_info(), Delete duplicate dmi_get_slot() Spotted-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* DMI: create dmi_get_slot()Len Brown2008-01-23
| | | | | | | This simply allows other sub-systems (such as ACPI) to access and print out slots in static dmi_ident[]. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* DMI: move dmi_available declaration to linux/dmi.hLen Brown2008-01-23
| | | | Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internalsJeff Garzik2007-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Three main sets of changes: 1) dmi_get_system_info() return value should have been marked const, since callers should not be changing that data. 2) const-ify DMI internals, since DMI firmware tables should, whenever possible, be marked const to ensure we never ever write to that data area. 3) const-ify DMI API, to enable marking tables const where possible in low-level drivers. And if we're really lucky, this might enable some additional optimizations on the part of the compiler. The bulk of the changes are #2 and #3, which are interrelated. #1 could have been a separate patch, but it was so small compared to the others, it was easier to roll it into this changeset. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
* DMI-based module autoloadingLennart Poettering2007-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The patch below adds DMI/SMBIOS based module autoloading to the Linux kernel. The idea is to load laptop drivers automatically (and other drivers which cannot be autoloaded otherwise), based on the DMI system identification information of the BIOS. Right now most distros manually try to load all available laptop drivers on bootup in the hope that at least one of them loads successfully. This patch does away with all that, and uses udev to automatically load matching drivers on the right machines. Basically the patch just exports the DMI information that has been parsed by the kernel anyway to userspace via a sysfs device /sys/class/dmi/id and makes sure that proper modalias attributes are available. Besides adding the "modalias" attribute it also adds attributes for a few other DMI fields which might be useful for writing udev rules. This patch is not an attempt to export the entire DMI/SMBIOS data to userspace. We already have "dmidecode" which parses the complete DMI info from userspace. The purpose of this patch is machine model identification and good udev integration. To take advantage of DMI based module autoloading, a driver should export one or more MODULE_ALIAS fields similar to these: MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnMICRO-STARINT'LCO.,LTD:pnMS-1013:pvr0131*:cvnMICRO-STARINT'LCO.,LTD:ct10:*"); MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnMicro-StarInternational:pnMS-1058:pvr0581:rvnMSI:rnMS-1058:*:ct10:*"); MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnMicro-StarInternational:pnMS-1412:*:rvnMSI:rnMS-1412:*:cvnMICRO-STARINT'LCO.,LTD:ct10:*"); MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnNOTEBOOK:pnSAM2000:pvr0131*:cvnMICRO-STARINT'LCO.,LTD:ct10:*"); These lines are specific to my msi-laptop.c driver. They are basically just a concatenation of a few carefully selected DMI fields with all potentially bad characters stripped. Besides laptop drivers, modules like "hdaps", the i2c modules and the hwmon modules are good candidates for "dmi:" MODULE_ALIAS lines. Besides merely exporting the DMI data via sysfs the patch adds support for a few more DMI fields. Especially the CHASSIS fields are very useful to identify different laptop modules. The patch also adds working MODULE_ALIAS lines to my msi-laptop.c driver. I'd like to thank Kay Sievers for helping me to clean up this patch for posting it on lkml. Patch is against Linus' current GIT HEAD. Should probably apply to older kernels as well without modification. Signed-off-by: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i386: Disable nmi watchdog on all ThinkPadsAndi Kleen2006-10-21
| | | | | | | Even newer Thinkpads have bugs in SMM code that causes hangs with NMI watchdog. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] DMI: Decode and save OEM String informationShem Multinymous2006-09-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This teaches dmi_decode() how to decode and save OEM Strings (type 11) DMI information, which is currently discarded silently. Existing code using DMI is not affected. Follows the "System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) Specification" (http://www.dmtf.org/standards/smbios), and also the userspace dmidecode.c code. OEM Strings are the only safe way to identify some hardware, e.g., the ThinkPad embedded controller used by the soon-to-be-submitted tp_smapi driver. This will also let us eliminate the long whitelist in the mainline hdaps driver (in a future patch). Signed-off-by: Shem Multinymous <multinymous@gmail.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Don't include linux/config.h from anywhere else in include/David Woodhouse2006-04-26
| | | | Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* [PATCH] x86_64: Clean up and tweak ACPI blacklist year codeAndi Kleen2006-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | - Move the core parser into dmi_scan.c. It can be useful for other subsystems too. - Differentiate between field doesn't exist and field is 0 or unparseable. The first case is likely an old BIOS with broken ACPI, the later is likely a slightly buggy BIOS where someone forget to edit the date. Don't blacklist in the later case. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86_64: Generalize DMI and enable for x86-64Andi Kleen2006-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some people need it now on 64bit so reuse the i386 code for x86-64. This will be also useful for future bug workarounds. It is a bit simplified there because there is no need to do it very early on x86-64. This means it doesn't need early ioremap et.al. We run it as a core initcall right now. I hope it's not needed for early setup. I added a general CONFIG_DMI symbol in case IA64 or someone else wants to reuse the code later too. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] CONFIG_IA32Brian Gerst2005-10-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Add CONFIG_X86_32 for i386. This allows selecting options that only apply to 32-bit systems. (X86 && !X86_64) becomes X86_32 (X86 || X86_64) becomes X86 Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86-64: Make dmi_find_device for !DMI case inlineAndi Kleen2005-09-12
| | | | | | | Otherwise it will generate warnings and be generated many times. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] dmi: add onboard devices discoveryAndrey Panin2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | This patch adds onboard devices and IPMI BMC discovery into DMI scan code. Drivers can use dmi_find_device() function to search for devices by type and name. Signed-off-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] I8K: use standard DMI interfaceDmitry Torokhov2005-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | I8K: Change to use stock dmi infrastructure instead of homegrown parsing code. The driver now requires box's DMI data to match list of supported models so driver can be safely compiled-in by default without fear of it poking into random SMM BIOS code. DMI checks can be ignored with i8k.ignore_dmi option. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-16
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!