Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.4] add SMBIOS information to /proc/smbios -- UPDATE 2 | From | Michael Brown <> | Date | Fri, 30 Apr 2004 23:15:55 -0500 |
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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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