Salut Erwan, On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:50:13 +0200, Erwan Velu wrote: > My name is Erwan Velu and I've been packaging dmidecode for linux > distributions (Mandriva/mageia) but also part of the syslinux project. > > I'm the author of a tool HDT (hardware detection tool) that aims at > detecting the hardware configuration at the bootloader time. > > It starts to become quite popular, used by many distro but also by > hardware manufacturer, computers recycling associations, ... > > Of course, DMI informations are very useful as it features so many > items. When I started working on my project, I did a simple integration > of dmidecode in it. > > To be honest, dmidecode is mostly designed for printing things out > directly to stdout. I'd love having a libdmi that allow detecting some > stuff, feed a data structure than I'm able to print when necessary. > > The other point, is that would help doing updates as you're pretty close > to the available items in the most recent specs. > > I'm pretty sure this changes could be very useful for other projects too. > > Would you like working together on such libification work ?
This has been proposed many times, and every time I suggest that anyone in need of library-based DMI data access should simply use libsmbios which offers exactly this: http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/download/libsmbios/ If there any problem with this approach? -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dmidecode-devel
