On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 01:39:19PM -0800, Steve Isaacs wrote:
Because of a need to be compatible with other systems I'm seeing a requirement to support SMBIOS tables. I did some quick searching and didn't find much regarding this subject on the LinuxBIOS web site or the source code.
LB does not try to support legacy stuff like this by design.
(LB does not try to be "BIOS compatible" if you will.)
From an application perspective this is important information. The same application needs to run on platforms having different BIOSes -- some commercial, some LinuxBIOS. The hardware type and version information is important for maintaining and deploying the application. Because of this, the application needs a consistent mechanism for retrieving the information I listed above.
Any suggestions or alternatives?
Yes, I suggest using an alternative. There isn't really much ready-made though.
Can you explain in more detail what information it is your application needs, that is so far unavailable?
//Peter