Re: [coreboot] Finding whether the BIOS is coreboot or not

[Andreas Kreuzinger]

Hi,

* Kevin Wilson <[e-mail]> [2015-07-18 10:03]:
> Is there a way, from a device running Linux,  to which I have access
> to the command line, to know
> whether the BIOS is coreboot or not ? by some utility, or by some sysfs entry ?

Yes, if you have dmidecode present:
ctvdr:~# dmidecode -t bios | grep Vendor                                        
        Vendor: coreboot                                                        
                                                                                
Probably it might be possible to set it to something else, but that             
seems to be the default.                                                        
                                                                                
@ndy

Finding whether the BIOS is coreboot or not

[Kevin Wilson]

Hi,
Thanks for all the responses.
Short questions:
I saw. on my system::
cat  /sys/class/dmi/id/bios_vendor
coreboot

Is it equivalent to
dmidecode -t bios | grep Vendor
        Vendor: coreboot

What I mean is: does dmidecode in fact read the
/sys/class/dmi/id/bios_vendor  entry?


Regard,
Kevin


On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 11:14 PM, Andreas Kreuzinger
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * Kevin Wilson <[e-mail]> [2015-07-18 10:03]:
> > Is there a way, from a device running Linux,  to which I have access
> > to the command line, to know
> > whether the BIOS is coreboot or not ? by some utility, or by some sysfs entry ?
>
> Yes, if you have dmidecode present:
> ctvdr:~# dmidecode -t bios | grep Vendor
>         Vendor: coreboot
>
> Probably it might be possible to set it to something else, but that
> seems to be the default.
>
> @ndy