From: Michael Brown <mebrown@michaels-house.net>
To: Lev Makhlis <mlev@despammed.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4] add SMBIOS information to /proc/smbios -- UPDATE 2
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 23:15:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1083384955.1202.2988.camel@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200405010007.43171.mlev@despammed.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-01 4:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-01 0:09 [PATCH 2.4] add SMBIOS information to /proc/smbios -- UPDATE 2 Lev Makhlis
2004-05-01 3:32 ` Michael Brown
2004-05-01 4:07 ` Lev Makhlis
2004-05-01 4:15 ` Michael Brown [this message]
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2004-04-30 5:08 Michael Brown
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