Vincent Stehlé

> Is this meant as a recommendation to mask ROM authors? I think it is. This is the continuation of [_"The platform should locate firmware by searching the partition table...

Rebased.

Rebased.

I have updated this pull request to require SMBIOS and a few structures, starting with the ones both required in [BBR v2.0](https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0044/latest) and [implemented in U-Boot latest](https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/blob/master/lib/smbios.c?ref_type=heads#L550).

Moving to draft after [call of 11 Mar](https://github.com/ARM-software/ebbr/wiki/EBBR-Notes-2024.03.11).

Respun after [call of 11 Mar](https://github.com/ARM-software/ebbr/wiki/EBBR-Notes-2024.03.11): - Only "strongly recommend" SMBIOS, and when implemented require structures - Remove Type 32 from table of required structures - Warn that SMBIOS will...

Trim down even more: only recommend SMBIOS and do not require any specific structure or table.

Dropping this pull request after [the call of June 17](https://github.com/ARM-software/ebbr/wiki/EBBR-Notes-2024.06.17); there is not enough remaining in the pull to be interesting. Let's revive it later on.

After call of Jan 16: this is configurable in U-Boot for example. Query variable info allows to retrieve the actual value at runtime. Adding a useful requirement in EBBR seems...

Rebased.