linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] Parse SMBIOS additional entries

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Message-ID: <20260116150318.GA402070@yaz-khff2.amd.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 10:03:18 -0500
From: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@....com>
To: "Mario Limonciello (AMD)" <superm1@...nel.org>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] Parse SMBIOS additional entries

On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 07:48:29AM -0600, Mario Limonciello (AMD) wrote:
> The SMBIOS additional entries on AMD Zen4+ systems running an AGESA
> based BIOS contain information about the AGESA version which can be
> useful for matching the software stack when debugging an issue.
> 
> Add support for parsing this from SMBIOS tables and output it into
> the logs at bootup.  Additionally export the information to debugfs
> in case users are interested in any other strings.
> 
> v3:
>  * Drop / merge patches from feedback
>  * Don't save additional strings, only show AGESA string if found
> 
> Mario Limonciello (1):
>   firmware: dmi: Add pr_fmt() for dmi_scan.c
> 
> Mario Limonciello (AMD) (4):
>   firmware: dmi: Correct an indexing error in dmi.h
>   firmware: dmi: Adjust dmi_decode() to use enums
>   firmware: dmi: Add missing DMI entry types
>   firmware: dmi: Read additional information when decoding DMI table
> 

One patch is authored with a different email. Is this intentional?

Not a problem, but wanted to ask just in case.

Thanks,
Yazen