From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261943AbUEAERF (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 May 2004 00:17:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261979AbUEAERF (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 May 2004 00:17:05 -0400 Received: from adsl-67-65-14-122.dsl.austtx.swbell.net ([67.65.14.122]:38355 "EHLO laptop.michaels-house.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261943AbUEAERC (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 May 2004 00:17:02 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4] add SMBIOS information to /proc/smbios -- UPDATE 2 From: Michael Brown To: Lev Makhlis Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200405010007.43171.mlev@despammed.com> References: <200404302009.49576.mlev@despammed.com> <1083382335.1203.2975.camel@debian> <200405010007.43171.mlev@despammed.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1083384955.1202.2988.camel@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 23:15:55 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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