the following patch was just integrated into master: commit 4e7385b58fcff0f59db6f0c4852a57e74f0d3b00 Author: Peter Stuge peter@stuge.se Date: Thu Oct 4 21:18:13 2012 +0200
SMBIOS: Allow overriding default Manufacturer and Product names
The vendor and part name from coreboot is normally stored in these SMBIOS structure fields, but it can be useful to override them.
On Lenovo ThinkPads an override is e.g. needed to convince the Linux thinkpad_acpi.c driver that it is actually running on a ThinkPad.
Change-Id: I0dfe38b9f6f99b3376f1547412ecc97c2f7aff2b Signed-off-by: Peter Stuge peter@stuge.se Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/1556 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net Reviewed-by: Christian Gmeiner christian.gmeiner@gmail.com
See http://review.coreboot.org/1556 for details.
-gerrit