URL:
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56164>
Summary: Module for retrieving SMBIOS information
Project: GNU GRUB
Submitted by: paravoid
Submitted on: Thu 18 Apr 2019 08:38:33 PM UTC
Category: None
Severity: Major
Priority: 5 - Normal
Item Group: Feature Request
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name:
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release:
Release: Git master
Reproducibility: None
Planned Release: None
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Details:
For many use cases, it's extremely useful to be able to extract information
out of SMBIOS. This is especially valueable in network boot situations, and a
feature pxelinux/syslinux, iPXE etc. support.
David Michael has gone through the trouble and actually wrote such a module,
and made it work both under both BIOS and EFI.
Apparently, he has also completed the FSF copyright assignment, and has tried
to push this upstream almost on a yearly basis since 2013(!):
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2013-04/msg00153.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-grub/2014-07/msg00012.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-grub/2015-01/msg00049.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2016-04/msg00020.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2017-05/msg00028.html
A lot of different people have responded too, and claimed they're using them
in production, so I'd argue that they are quite well tested by now. The
diffstat looks like this:
docs/grub.texi | 75
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
grub-core/Makefile.core.def | 15 +++++++++++++++
grub-core/commands/efi/lsefisystab.c | 1 +
grub-core/efiemu/i386/pc/cfgtables.c | 15 ++++-----------
include/grub/efi/api.h | 5 +++++
5 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
It seems like the patches still apply to 2.04, but if a rebase is required,
either David or I can rebase and submit. Would it be possible to merge this?
Thanks!
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