On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 07:44 -0800, Steve Isaacs wrote:
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 11:17 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
On 19.12.2007 01:35, Marc Jones wrote:
Steve Isaacs wrote:
The requirement I'm struggling with is for our Linux based applications to be able to identify the hardware and firmware (part numbers and revision numbers) it is running on for support and update reasons. The applications I'm referring to will be running on LinuxBIOS and commercial BIOS machines with custom hardware. A consistent means of identifying either is needed. SMBIOS (System Management BIOS http://www.dmtf.org/standards/smbios/) can be used for this purpose.
A followup: I'm going to use an alternative approach -- the needed information is already there or can be easily embedded just use a different mechanism to access it. SMBIOS just complicates things.
Steve