From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan_Kwahk@Dell.com Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 19:32:49 +0000 Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] Two questions Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-IA64 mailing list Linux-IA64@linuxia64.org http://lists.linuxia64.org/lists/listinfo/linux-ia64 _______________________________________________ Linux-IA64 mailing list Linux-IA64@linuxia64.org http://lists.linuxia64.org/lists/listinfo/linux-ia64