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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.4] add SMBIOS information to /proc/smbios -- UPDATE 2
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On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 23:07, Lev Makhlis wrote:
> > Can you please send me a URL with this information? I have access to
> > some IA64 machines. I will add this code if I have a spec.
> > --
> > Michael
>
> The EFI spec is here: http://developer.intel.com/technology/efi/EFI_110.htm
> (SMBIOS pointer is mentioned in section 4.3), but arch/ia64/kernel/efi*.c
> already reads EFI. You may want to look at dmidecode
> (http://freshmeat.net/projects/dmidecode/), which has code to read
> /proc/efi/systab (which, last I checked, itself required a patch).
> In kernel space, I think you could just use efi.smbios, but I'm not an expert
> on that myself.

Ok, good. Thanks. I was also looking around a bit. It looks like the
right thing to do is to use efi.smbios. I'll look at this next week when
I get a chance to hop on our test box. Looks like this makes the ia64
version of this a bit shorter than the x86 version. :-)
--
Michael


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