RE: [Linux-ia64] Two questions

[Jonathan_Kwahk@Dell.com]

Obviouslly, W460GXBS2 is the chipset notation (Workstation 460GX chipset,
Big Sur).
89B is the build number for the BIOS.
P03 is production build.  In this case, it's build 3.

If I recall correctly (it's been a very long time), the last string includes
the date of build.  I'm not sure what the other digits mean.

J

-----Original Message-----
From: Hall, Jenna S [mailto:jenna.s.hall@intel.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 12:01 PM
To: linux-ia64@linuxia64.org
Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] Two questions


As far as the 30+ digit BIOS revision, the only significant part would be
the "0089B" in the number below:

W460GXBS2.86E.0089B.P03.200012151745

So that's all you really have to record or report to Intel when clarifying
BIOS revision.

Jenna

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephane Eranian [mailto:eranian@frankl.hpl.hp.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 9:35 AM
To: linux-ia64@linuxia64.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Two questions


On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:19:05PM +0100, Francis Galiegue wrote:
> 1. Where can I get precise info about firmware revisions, etc etc? I only
know
> about what a 'ver' displays at the EFI prompt and what the files in /proc
> display... As to noting the 30+ digit BIOS revision, I do it by hand for
now...

Could you explain exactly what do you mean by precise ? version numbers ?
If so, you can get the pal version in  /proc/pal/cpu0/version_info. As for
EFI and SAL, at this point, there is no /proc interface to them. So your
only chance is by dmesg because the kernel prints the versions when it
boots.
The rest is probably coming from ACPI, I guess.

--
-Stephane

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