efi: Update some comments related to smbios tables

Clarify the operation of this code with some additional comments.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
lime2-spi
Simon Glass 6 years ago committed by Alexander Graf
parent 85b469215f
commit 0864c565a2
  1. 7
      include/efi_loader.h
  2. 5
      include/smbios.h
  3. 7
      lib/efi_loader/efi_smbios.c

@ -214,6 +214,13 @@ efi_status_t efi_net_register(void);
/* Called by bootefi to make the watchdog available */
efi_status_t efi_watchdog_register(void);
/* Called by bootefi to make SMBIOS tables available */
/**
* efi_smbios_register() - write out SMBIOS tables
*
* Called by bootefi to make SMBIOS tables available
*
* @return 0 if OK, -ENOMEM if no memory is available for the tables
*/
efi_status_t efi_smbios_register(void);
struct efi_simple_file_system_protocol *

@ -231,8 +231,9 @@ typedef int (*smbios_write_type)(ulong *addr, int handle);
*
* This writes SMBIOS table at a given address.
*
* @addr: start address to write SMBIOS table
* @return: end address of SMBIOS table
* @addr: start address to write SMBIOS table. If this is not
* 16-byte-aligned then it will be aligned before the table is written
* @return: end address of SMBIOS table (and start address for next entry)
*/
ulong write_smbios_table(ulong addr);

@ -29,7 +29,12 @@ efi_status_t efi_smbios_register(void)
if (ret != EFI_SUCCESS)
return ret;
/* Generate SMBIOS tables */
/*
* Generate SMBIOS tables - we know that efi_allocate_pages() returns
* a 4k-aligned address, so it is safe to assume that
* write_smbios_table() will write the table at that address.
*/
assert(!(dmi & 0xf));
write_smbios_table(dmi);
/* And expose them to our EFI payload */

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