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authorMario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>2017-11-01 14:25:32 -0500
committerDarren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>2017-11-03 16:33:59 -0700
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platform/x86: dell-smbios-wmi: Add new WMI dispatcher driver
The dell-smbios stack only currently uses an SMI interface which grants direct access to physical memory to the firmware SMM methods via a pointer. This dispatcher driver adds a WMI-ACPI interface that is detected by WMI probe and preferred over the SMI interface in dell-smbios. Changing this to operate over WMI-ACPI will use an ACPI OperationRegion for a buffer of data storage when SMM calls are performed. This is a safer approach to use in kernel drivers as the SMM will only have access to that OperationRegion. Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com> Reviewed-by: Edward O'Callaghan <quasisec@google.com> Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>
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@@ -3991,6 +3991,12 @@ L: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
S: Maintained
F: drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios-smm.c
+DELL SMBIOS WMI DRIVER
+M: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>
+L: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
+S: Maintained
+F: drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios-wmi.c
+
DELL LAPTOP DRIVER
M: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
M: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>