Steve Isaacs wrote: > Because of a need to be compatible with other systems I'm seeing a > requirement to support SMBIOS tables. I did some quick searching and > didn't find much regarding this subject on the LinuxBIOS web site or the > source code. > > Specifically, the _SM_ pattern (SMMBIOS spec) needs to be embedded along > with DMI blocks such as System Information (0x01), Base Board > Information (0x02), System Encloser or Chassis (0x03) at a minimum. The > commandline utility dumpSmbios (or similar) would be used to retrieve > this information. > >>From an application perspective this is important information. The same > application needs to run on platforms having different BIOSes -- some > commercial, some LinuxBIOS. The hardware type and version information is > important for maintaining and deploying the application. Because of > this, the application needs a consistent mechanism for retrieving the > information I listed above. > > Any suggestions or alternatives? > > Thanks, > > Steve > > >
Steve, I don't think that anyone has implemented SMBIOS for LinuxBIOS since it is a "legacy" BIOS feature and not required to boot Linux. Also, LinuxBIOS doesn't leave any code resident which would be required for SMBIOS. Maybe a payload or a custom driver would be the way to go. Marc -- Marc Jones Senior Firmware Engineer (970) 226-9684 Office mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.amd.com/embeddedprocessors -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
